Vietnam's southern revolution: From peasant insurrection to total war, 1959-1968

Vietnam's Southern Revolution: From Peasant Insurrection to Total War, 1959-1968

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68. (Douglas Pike, The Viet-Cong Strategy of Terror [Saigon: United States Mission, 1970], 82).
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70. Regina Janes, "Beheadings", Representations 35(1991):24.
71. Jeffrey Race, War Comes to Long An: Revolutionary Conflict in a Viet nam ese Province (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1972), 7;
72. Robert Sansom, The Economics of Insurgency in the Mekong Delta of Vietnam (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1970), 29;
73. Janes, "Beheadings";
74. William Beik, Urban Protest in Seventeenth-Century France: The Culture of Retribution (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997);
75. Beik, "The Violence of the French Crowd from Charivari to Revolution", Past & Present 197(2007):75-110.
76. Gabriel Kolko, Anatomy of a War: Vietnam, the United States, and the Modern Historical Experience (New York: New Press, 1994), 129.
77. (Economics of Insurgency, 65).
78. Hoenik Kwon's remarkable After the Massacre: Commemoration and Consolation in Ha My and My Lai (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006).
79. Kolko, Anatomy of a War, 104-6.
80. Russell Jacoby, Picture Imperfect: Utopian Thought for an Anti-Utopian Age (New York: Columbia University Press, 2005), xiv;
81. David Harvey, Spaces of Hope (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000), 173.
82. Marshall Berman, All That Is Solid Melts into Air: The Experience of Modernity (New York: Penguin, 1988), 6.
83. David Hunt, "Village Culture and the Viet nam ese Revolution", Past & Present 94(1982):131-57.
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85. Nguyen Khac Vien, Tradition and Revolution in Vietnam (Berkeley: Indochina Resource Center, 1974).
86. Bao Dai, Le dragon d'Annam (Paris: Plon, 1980), 250.
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88. Carole Pateman, The Sexual Contract (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1988).
89. Interviewees no. 46 and no. 273 were married, no. 164 was divorced, and no. 65 and no. 264 were widows;
90. Richard Stites, Revolutionary Dreams: Utopian Vision and Experimental Life in the Rus sian Revolution (New York: Oxford University Press, 1989).
91. Washington Post, April 18, 1975.
92. David Elliott, The Viet nam ese War: Revolution and Social Change in the Mekong Delta, 1930-1975 (New York: Sharpe, 2003), 619 and 1133.
93. David Hackworth, Steel My Soldiers' Hearts: The Hopeless to Hardcore Transformation of the Fourth Battalion, 39th Infantry, United States Army, Vietnam (New York: Touchstone, 2002), 320-24.
94. Lady Borton, After Sorrow: An American among the Vietnamese (New York: Viking, 1995), 28.
95. Elliott, Vietnamese War, 1162.
96. Elliott, Vietnamese War, 1387.
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98. David Hunt, "The My Tho Grapevine and the Sino-Soviet Split", in A Companion to the Vietnam War, ed. Marilyn Young and Robert Buzzanco (Malden, Mass.: Blackwell, 2002), 79-92.
99. David Elliott, The Viet nam ese War: Revolution and Social Change in the Mekong Delta, 1930-1975 (New York: Sharpe, 2003), 736.
100. Fredrik Logevall, Choosing War: The Lost Chance for Peace and the Escalation of War in Vietnam (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999);
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107. Samuel Huntington, "The Bases of Accommodation", Foreign Affairs 46(1968):652, 648.
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109. David Hackworth, Steel My Soldiers' Hearts: The Hopeless to Hardcore Transformation of Fourth Battalion, 39th Infantry, United States Army, Vietnam (New York: Touchstone, 2002), chap. 17.
110. Bruce Cumings, Korea's Place in the Sun: A Modern History (New York: Norton, 2005).
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113. David Hackworth, Steel My Soldiers' Heart: The Hopeless to Hardcore Transformation of the U. S. Army, Fourth Battalion, 39th Infantry, Vietnam (New York: Touchstone, 2003).
114. Richard Rath, How Early America Sounded (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2003).
115. Hackworth, Steel My Soldiers' Hearts, 325.
116. Michel de Certeau, The Practice of Everyday Life, trans. Steven Rendall (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988), xix, 37.
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124. Ngo Vinh Long, "The Tet Offensive and Its Aftermath", in The American War in Vietnam, ed. Jayne Werner and David Hunt (Ithaca: Southeast Asia Program, Cornell University, 1993), 23-45.
125. David Elliott, The Vietnamese War: Revolution and Social Change in the Mekong Delta, 1930-1975 (New York: Sharpe, 2003), 1063 and 1055-56;
126. Lady Borton, After Sorrow: An American among the Viet nam ese (New York: Viking, 1995), 114.
127. Elliott, Vietnamese War, 1090;
128. Kolko, Anatomy of a War, 371.
129. Jacques Decornoy, Le Monde, March 1, 1968.
130. William Turley, The Second Indochina War: A Concise Po liti cal and Military History (Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 2008), chap. 6.
131. Elliott, Vietnamese War, 1084.
132. Elliott, Vietnamese War, 1071;
133. Lynne Viola, Peasant Rebels under Stalin: Collectivization and the Culture of Peasant Re sis tance (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996).
134. (Elliott, Vietnamese War, 1082);
135. (Kolko, Anatomy of a War, 333-34).
136. Elliott, Vietnamese War, 1050, 1293, and 1371.
137. Eric Bergerud, The Dynamics of Defeat: The Vietnam War in Hau Nghia Province (Boulder: Westview Press, 1991), 205, 305, 311, 318;
138. Frank Frost, Australia's War in Vietnam (Boston: Allen and Unwin, 1987), 161-62;
139. David Hunt, "U. S. Scholarship and the National Liberation Front", in Werner and Hunt, The American War in Vietnam, 104-7.
140. Philip Taylor, Fragments of the Present: Searching for Modernity in Vietnam's South (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2001), chap. 5.
141. Jayne Werner and Daniele Belanger, eds., Gender, Household, State: Doi Moi in Viet Nam (Ithaca: Southeast Asia Program, Cornell University, 2002);
142. Ashley Pettus, Between Sacrifice and Desire: National Identity and the Governing of Femininity in Vietnam (New York: Routledge, 2003).
143. (cited in Borton, After Sorrow, 132).
144. Hue-Tam Ho Tai, ed., The Country of Memory: Remaking the Past in Late Socialist Vietnam (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001)
145. Mandy Thomas, "Needlepoints of Labour: Viet nam ese Women, the Garment Industry, and Transnational Space", in Gender Practices in Contemporary Vietnam, ed. Lisa Drummond and Helle Rydstrom (Singapore: NIAS Press, 2004), 240.
146. Phillips Davison, User's Guide to the Rand Interviews in Vietnam (Santa Monica: Rand Corporation, 1972).
147. Davison, User's Guide, 33-34;
148. David Elliott, The Viet nam ese War: Revolution and Social Change in the Mekong Delta, 1930-1975 (New York: Sharpe, 2003), 1159 and 761 (see also 754);
149. Davison, User's Guide, 15;
150. Sherry Ortner, "Re sis tance and the Problem of Ethnographic Refusal", in The Historic Turn in the Human Sciences, ed. Terrence McDonald (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1999), 298.
151. Mark Bradley, Imagining Vietnam and America: The Making of a Postcolonial Vietnam, 1919-1950 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000).
152. Mission in Torment: An Intimate Account of the U. S. Role in Vietnam (Garden City, N. Y.: Doubleday, 1965), 76.
153. Interviewer comments are from interviews 247, 67, and 18.
154. Interviewer comments and the end of interviews 24 and 122.
155. 9/interviewer comment.
156. Interviewer comments and the end of interviews 52, 129, and 10.
157. Interviewer comments at the end of interviews 61 and 159.
158. 142/interviewer comment.
159. Davison, User's Guide, 20.