Van Nguyen-Marshall

Between War and the State

Civil Society in South Vietnam, 1954-1975

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"Examines an array of voluntary activities, including mutual-help, professional, charitable, community development, student, women's, and rights organizations to explore state-society relations in wartime and provide insight into how ordinary South Vietnamese responded to a myriad of sociopolitical challenges that accompanied postcolonial nation building, national division, civil war, and Cold-War exigencies"-

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cornell University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juli 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 151mm x 230mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 376g
• ISBN-13: 9781501770586
• ISBN-10: 1501770586
• Artikelnr.: 67637192

Autorenporträt

Van Nguyen-Marshall is Associate Professor in the Department of History at Trent University. She is the author of In Search of Moral Authority.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Theory and Scope
1. The Historical and Political Landscape
2. Sociability and Associational Life in South Vietnam
3. Performing Social Service in South Vietnam
4. Voluntary Efforts in Social and Community Development
5. Social and Political Activism of Students in South Vietnam
6. S.ng Thn Newspaper and the "Highway of Horror" Project
7. The Fight for Rights and Freedoms in the 1970s
Conclusion: Challenges and Possibilities in Comparative Context