Title Vietnam's lost revolution : Ngô Đình Diệm's failure to build an independent nation, 1955-1963 / Geoffrey Stewart, University of Western Ontario

Published Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2017 ©2017

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 265 pages) : illustrations, maps Series Cambridge studies in US foreign relations Cambridge studies in US foreign relations. Contents A temporary expedient : the origins of civic action in Vietnam -- Nationalism and welfare improvement in the Republic of Vietnam -- Revolution, community development, and the construction of Diệm's Vietnam -- "Bettering the people's conditions of existence" : civic action and community development, 1957-9 -- Civic action and insurgency -- The strategic Hamlet program and civic action in retreat -- Conclusion: Vietnam's lost revolution Summary "Vietnam's Lost Revolution employs newly-released archival material from Vietnam to examine the rise and fall of the Special Commissariat for Civic Action in the First Republic of Vietnam, and in so doing reassesses the origins of the Vietnam War. A cornerstone of Ngô Đình Diệm's presidency, Civic Action was intended to transform Vietnam into a thriving, modern, independent, noncommunist Southeast Asian nation. Geoffrey Stewart juxtaposes Diem's revolutionary plan with the conflicting and competing visions of Vietnam's postcolonial future held by other indigenous groups. He shows how the government failed to gain legitimacy within the peasantry, ceding the advantage to the communist-led opposition and paving the way for the American military intervention in the mid-1960s. This book provides a richer and more nuanced analysis of the origins of the Vietnam War in which internal struggles over national identity, self-determination, and even modernity itself are central"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Ngô, Đình Diệm, 1901-1963 -- Political and social views SUBJECT Ngô, Đình Diệm, 1901-1963 fast Subject Nation-building -- Vietnam (Republic) -- History -- 20th century Postcolonialism -- Vietnam (Republic) -- History -- 20th century Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Causes POLITICAL SCIENCE -- History & Theory. HISTORY -- Asia -- Southeast Asia. Nation-building Political and social views Politics and government Postcolonialism War -- Causes SUBJECT Vietnam (Republic) -- Politics and government Vietnam -- History -- 1945-1975. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85143261 Subject Vietnam Vietnam (Republic) Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781108223966 1108223966 9781316160992 1316160998

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