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Vietnam's southern revolution : from peasant insurrection to total war

Title
  1. Vietnam's southern revolution : from peasant insurrection to total war / David Hunt.
Published by
  1. Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 2009.
Author
  1. Hunt, David, 1942-

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Description
  1. xi, 272 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Summary
  1. The author uses released Rand interviews with 'Viet Cong' defectors and prisoners of war and past work involving the province of M? Tho to create a more up-to-date social framework for the Vietnam War at the village level.
Subject
  1. Vietcong
  2. 1900-1999
  3. Geschichte 1959-1968
  4. Sozialgeschichte 1959-1968
  5. Vietnam War, 1961-1975 > Social aspects
  6. Peasants > Vietnam > Mỹ Tho > History > 20th century
  7. Peasants > Vietnam > Mỹ Tho > Interviews
  8. War and society > Vietnam > History > 20th century
  9. Civil-military relations > Vietnam > History > 20th century
  10. Civil-military relations
  11. Peasants
  12. Politics and government
  13. Social aspects
  14. Social conditions
  15. War and society
  16. Landbevölkerung
  17. Aufstand
  18. Vietnam > Social conditions > 20th century
  19. Mỹ Tho (Vietnam) > Social conditions > 20th century
  20. Mỹ Tho (Vietnam) > Biography
  21. Vietnam > Politics and government > 1945-1975
  22. Vietnam
  23. Vietnam > Mỹ Tho
  24. Südvietnam
Genre/Form
  1. Interview
  2. interviews.
  3. Biographies.
  4. History.
  5. Interviews.
Contents
  1. A social history of the Vietnam War -- An itinerant peasantry -- The peasant revolt of 1959-60 -- Contested unities of the golden period -- The popular movement and the generational divide -- Modern girls and new women -- Escalation at ground level -- Mapping the exodus -- The American other -- Fate of the liberated zone -- "Live hour, live minute" -- The Tet Offensive -- Appendix: The uses of a source.
Owning institution
  1. Princeton University Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-263) and index.