Viet Nam
A History from Earliest Times to the Present
(Sprache: Englisch)
This comprehensive work traces Viet Nam's history, a narrative of a multi-ethnic, multi-religious heritage, from ancient chiefdoms to imperial provinces, from independent kingdoms to contending regions, civil wars, French colonies, and modern republics.
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This comprehensive work traces Viet Nam's history, a narrative of a multi-ethnic, multi-religious heritage, from ancient chiefdoms to imperial provinces, from independent kingdoms to contending regions, civil wars, French colonies, and modern republics.
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This book narrates the history of the different peoples who have lived in the three major regions of Viet Nam over the past 3,000 years. It brings to life their relationships with these regions' landscapes, water resources, and climatic conditions, their changing cultures and religious traditions, and their interactions with their neighbors in China and Southeast Asia. Key themes include the dramatic impact of changing weather patterns from ancient to medieval and modern times, the central importance of riverine and maritime communications, ecological and economic transformations, and linguistic and literary changes. The country's long experience of regional diversity, multi-ethnic populations, and a multi-religious heritage that ranges from local spirit cults to the influences of Buddhism, Confucianism and Catholicism, makes for a vividly pluralistic narrative. The arcs of Vietnamese history include the rise and fall of different political formations, from chiefdoms to Chinese provinces, from independent kingdoms to divided regions, civil wars, French colonies, and modern republics. In the twentieth century anticolonial nationalism, the worldwide depression, Japanese occupation, a French attempt at reconquest, the traumatic American-Vietnamese war, and the 1975 communist victory all set the scene for the making of contemporary Viet Nam. Rapid economic growth in recent decades has transformed this one-party state into a global trading nation. Yet its rich history still casts a long shadow. Along with other members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, Viet Nam is now involved in a tense territorial standoff in the South China Sea, as a rival of China and a "partner" of the United States. If its independence and future geographical unity seem assured, Viet Nam's regional security and prospects for democracy remain clouded.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Viet Nam “
- Introduction
- Part 1 Chiefdoms
- Chapter 1 Water, Rice, and Bronze: Viet Nam in Prehistory
- Part 2 Provinces
- Chapter 2 Calming the Waves: Chinese Conquest and Indigenization, 221 BCE-540 CE
- Chapter 3 Mountains and Rivers of the South: Annam and its Neighbors, 6th to 10th Centuries
- Part 3 Kingdoms
- Chapter 4 "Rice from the Sky:" Assembling the Spirits of Dai Viet, 940-1340
- Chapter 5 Smooth Flowing Waters of Government: The Triumph of Confucianism, 1340-1570
- Part 3 Regions
- Chapter 6 Contending Shogunates: Inner and Outer Regions, 1570-1770
- Chapter 7 Alternative Unifications: Rebellion and Restoration, 1771-1859
- Part 4 Colonies
- Chapter 8 "World Trends" and French Conquest, 1860-1920
- Chapter 9 Writing and Revolution from Colonialism to Independence, 1920-1954
- Part 5 Republics
- Chapter 10 The American-Vietnamese War, 1954-1975
- Chapter 11 The Making of Contemporary Viet Nam, 1975-2015
- Notes
- Bibliography
Autoren-Porträt von Ben Kiernan
Ben Kiernan is the author of The Pol Pot Regime, Genocide and Democracy in Cambodia, and Blood and Soil: A World History of Genocide and Extermination from Sparta to Darfur.Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Ben Kiernan
- 2017, 656 Seiten, Maße: 16,5 x 24 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- ISBN-10: 0195160762
- ISBN-13: 9780195160765
- Erscheinungsdatum: 13.04.2017
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
Kiernan's dispassionate recording of the behaviour of the regional powers - Champa, Cambodia, China, India - should help to make Viet Nam: A History from Earliest Times a durable work Sophie Quinn-Judge, Times Literary Supplement
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