Description
The Republic of (South) Vietnam is commonly viewed as a unified entity throughout the two decades (1955-75) during which the United States was its main ally. However, domestic politics during that time followed a dynamic trajectory from authoritarianism to chaos to a relatively stable experiment in parliamentary democracy. The stereotype of South Vietnam that appears in most writings, both academic and popular, focuses on the first two periods to portray a caricature of a corrupt, unstable dictatorship and ignores what was achieved during the last eight years.
The essays in Voices from the Second Republic of South Vietnam (1967-1975) come from those who strove to build a constitutional structure of representative government during a war for survival with a totalitarian state. Those committed to realizing a noncommunist Vietnamese future placed their hopes in the Second Republic, fought for it, and worked for its success. This book is a step in making their stories known.
Author: K. W. Taylor
Publisher: Southeast Asia Program Publications
Published: 02/19/2015
Pages: 180
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 9.80h x 7.00w x 0.50d
ISBN13: 9780877277651
ISBN10: 0877277656
BISAC Categories:
- History | Asia | Southeast Asia
- History | Wars & Conflicts | Vietnam War
- Political Science | History & Theory | General
About the Author
Keith W. Taylor is Professor of Vietnamese Studies at Cornell University. He is the author of A History of the Vietnamese.
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