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Vietnam's Lost Revolution

Ngô Đình Diệm's Failure to Build an Independent Nation, 1955–1963

By: Geoffrey C. Stewart

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Vietnam's Lost Revolution

Ngô Đình Diệm's Failure to Build an Independent Nation, 1955–1963

By: Geoffrey C. Stewart

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.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108210465

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9781108210461

Vietnam's Lost Revolution

Ngô Đình Diệm's Failure to Build an Independent Nation, 1955–1963

By: Geoffrey C. Stewart

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Ngô Đình Diệm's Failure to Build an Independent Nation, 1955–1963

By: Geoffrey C. Stewart

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The Phantom Empire

By: Geoffrey O'Brien

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The Phantom Empire

By: Geoffrey O'Brien

The Phantom Empire is a brilliant, daring, and utterly original book that analyzes (even as it exemplifies) the effect that the image saturation of a hundred years of moving pictures have had on human culture and consciousness.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393312968

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9780393312966

Electoral Shocks

The Volatile Voter in a Turbulent World

By: Edward Fieldhouse,Jane Green,Geoffrey Evans,Jonathan Mellon,Christopher Prosser,Hermann Schmitt,Cees van der Eijk

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Electoral Shocks

The Volatile Voter in a Turbulent World

By: Edward Fieldhouse,Jane Green,Geoffrey Evans,Jonathan Mellon,Christopher Prosser,Hermann Schmitt,Cees van der Eijk

Electoral Shocks: The Volatile Voter in a Turbulent World offers a novel perspective on British elections, focusing on the role of electoral shocks in the context of increasing electoral volatility. It demonstrates and explains the long-term trend in volatility, how shocks have contributed to the level of electoral volatility, and also which parties have benefited from the ensuing volatility. It follows in the tradition of British Election Study books, providing a comprehensive account of specific election outcomes- the General Elections of 2015 and 2017-and a more general and novel approach to understanding electoral change. The authors examine five electoral shocks that affected the elections of 2015 and 2017: the rise in immigration after 2004, particularly from Eastern Europe; the Global Financial Crisis prior to 2010; the coalition government of the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats between 2010 and 2015; the Scottish Independence Referendum in 2014; and the European Union Referendum in 2016. The focus on electoral shocks offers an overarching explanation for the volatility in British elections, alongside the long-term trends that have led to this point. It offers a way to understand the rise and fall of the UK Independence Party (UKIP), Labour's disappointing 2015 performance and its later unexpected gains, the collapse in support for the Liberal Democrats, the dramatic gains of the Scottish National Party (SNP) in 2015, and the continuing period of tumultuous politics that has followed the EU referendum and the General Election of 2017. It provides a new way of understanding electoral choice in Britain, and also beyond, and a better understanding of the outcomes of recent elections.

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Oxford University Press

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0192520849

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9780192520845

The Sign of the Cannibal

Melville and the Making of a Postcolonial Reader

By: Geoffrey Sanborn

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The Sign of the Cannibal

Melville and the Making of a Postcolonial Reader

By: Geoffrey Sanborn

By exploring cannibalism in the work of Herman Melville, Sanborn argues that Melville produced a postcolonial perspective even as nations were building colonial empires.

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Duke University Press

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0822321181

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9780822321187

Book's by Geoffrey C. Stewart

Vietnam's Lost Revolution

Vietnam's Lost Revolution

Vietnam's Lost Revolution

Vietnam's Lost Revolution

The Phantom Empire

The Phantom Empire

Electoral Shocks

Electoral Shocks

The Sign of the Cannibal

The Sign of the Cannibal

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