David G Marr
Biographic Data
| ID | 731554 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David G Marr |
| GIVEN NAMES | David G |
| FAMILY NAME | Marr |
| SIGNATURE | MARR D G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Australian National University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 56 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 53 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1966 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Cambridge History of the Vietnam War
When, how, and why did the Vietnam War begin? Although its end is dated April 30, 1975, there is no agreement as to when it began. The Vietnam War was an enormously complex conflict and while any comprehensive reckoning must include the role of the US, it was not an 'American War'. This volume presents the scholarship that has flourished since the 1990s to situate the war and its origins within longer chronologies and larger interpretative perspe…
Vietnam 1945
Vietnamese Anticolonialism 1885-1925
Early US Marine Operations in Vietnam
The author served as sole language interpreter for the first US Marine helicopter squadron to operate in Vietnam. During 1962–1964, marines had their first limited exposure to what would become a massive combat trial. Marr describes daily base operations, combat support missions, and interactions with diverse people. He subsequently participated in Vietnam intelligence activities at Camp Smith in Hawai‘i, where young officers debated the efficacy…
Response to Alec Holcombe’s JVS review essay on Vietnam
Product Review| February 01 2017 Response to Alec Holcombe’s JVS review essay on Vietnam: State, War and Revolution (1945–1946) This essay is a response by the author to the review essay on his book Vietnam: State, War, and Revolution (1945–1946) (Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 2013) by Alec Holcombe (Ohio University) which appeared in Volume 11, no. 3–4 of this journal. David G. Marr David G. Marr Search for other works by thi…
Vietnam
David Marr's Vietnam: State, War, and Revolution approaches the events following the 1945 August Revolution in Vietnam with a fresh outlook on the nation's efforts to renounce its colonial past and embrace the prospect of a modernized future—all the while fighting to fortify a poverty-stricken present. Amidst the impending danger of Franco-Vietnamese warfare, the country sees to a reincarnation through acts of unified patriotism. Vietnam orients …
Vietnam
Amidst the revolutionary euphoria of August 1945, most Vietnamese believed that colonialism and war were being left behind in favor of independence and modernization. The late-September British-French coup de force in Saigon cast a pall over such assumptions. Ho Chi Minh tried to negotiate a mutually advantageous relationship with France, but meanwhile told his lieutenants to plan for a war in which the nascent state might have to survive without…
Vietnam declassified
Thomas L. Ahern, Jr. Lexington, KY, University Press of Kentucky, 2010, xxiii+550 pp In 1962, the author of this informative book came to South Vietnam from running a CIA paramilitary program in La
Wynn Wilcox. Allegories of the Vietnamese Past
The front cover of this book features a photograph of President Lyndon B. Johnson toasting General Nguyen Cao Ky at a 1967 luncheon on Guam, during which Johnson evoked an alleged 1873 meeting between President Ulysses S. Grant and a Vietnamese court official seeking American aid. Almost surely this official never made it to America, yet the story was so useful to Johnson in affirming Washington-Saigon solidarity that nobody bothered to investiga…
JAS review of books
Reviews Marian Sawer and Barry Hindess (eds), Us and Them: Anti‐Elitism in Australia , Bentley, API Network, 2004, pp 300, pb $34.95, ISBN 1920845097. Sally Young, The Persuaders: Inside the hidden machine of political advertising, Sydney, Pluto Australia, 2004, pp 380, pb $29.95, ISBN 1864033045. Julia Baird, Media Taris: How the Australian Press Frames Female Politicians, Carlton North, Scribe Publications, 2004, pp 330, pb $32.95, ISBN 1920769…
Beyond Hanoi
This is the first book in English to examine local government and authority in Vietnam since the country’s reunification in 1975. Beyond Hanoi addresses four questions: what local institutions and offices have authority to govern; who are the local officials and how do they get their positions; what do local governments do and whose interests do they serve; and what do residents say about local officials and governing institutions? Based on in-de…
Occupation and Revolution
Bringing the National Liberation Front Back into the History of the Vietnam War
During the Vietnam War, policymakers in Washington constantly asserted that Hanoi alone directed the armed struggle in the South, with the National Liberation Front (NLF)1 a mere cover name or façade. Soon after divisions of the People's Liberation Armed Forces (PLAF) marched into Saigon at the end of April 1975, Hanoi cheerfully took credit for masterminding the entire twenty-year struggle below the 17th parallel and made sure that no southern p…
China and the Vietnam Wars, 1950-1975 . Qiang Zhai
History and Memory in Vietnam Today
Amidst rapid socio-economic change, many Vietnamese are anxious to preserve some memories and traditions against the ravages of time. This essay examines Tap Chi Xua & Nay (Past and Present Journal), a popular publication of the Vietnam History Association, to demonstrate how history is being recreated and memory redefined even as the editors claim to uphold timeless patriotic verities
Concepts of 'Individual' and 'Self' in Twentieth-Century Vietnam
Individual' (cá nhân) came to the Vietnamese language in the first decades of the twentieth century, along with a host of other evocative neologisms, such as 'society' (xã hôi), 'ethnic group/nation' (dân tôc), 'ideology' (chu' nghĩa), 'democracy' (dân chu' chu' nghĩa), 'science' (khoa hoc), and 'progress' (tiêń hóa). Initially, 'individual' was very much the poor relation among these new concepts-merely an irreducible human unit belonging to som…
Studies on Vietnamese Language and Literature
Vietnam 1945
Vietnam 1945
The Prisonhouse of Emerson
Asia in Australian higher education
American Worlds since Emerson
American Worlds since Emerson
Southeast Asia in the 9th to 14th Centuries
Briefly noted
Archie R. Crouch, Scholars’ Guide to China Mission Resources in the Libraries and Archives of the United States, Fascicle 1: Pennsylvania, Princeton Theological Seminary/Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, 1983. 84 pp. US$19.50. Kibbey M. Horne, Chinese Food For The Modern Marco Polo, Chinese Materials Center Publications, Asian Library Series No. 43, San Francisco, 1986. viii, 270 pp. Paper: n.p.g. Luke S.K. Kwong, A Mosaic of the…
Concepts of 'Individual' and 'Self' in Twentieth-Century Vietnam
Individual' (cá nhân) came to the Vietnamese language in the first decades of the twentieth century, along with a host of other evocative neologisms, such as 'society' (xã hôi), 'ethnic group/nation' (dân tôc), 'ideology' (chu' nghĩa), 'democracy' (dân chu' chu' nghĩa), 'science' (khoa hoc), and 'progress' (tiêń hóa). Initially, 'individual' was very much the poor relation among these new concepts-merely an irreducible human unit belonging to som…
The 1920s Women's Rights Debates in Vietnam
In the quarter century preceding the August 1945 Revolution, social change was a subject often on the minds of Vietnamese. People of diverse class backgrounds and political predilections knew that Vietnamese society was being altered fundamentally. How to understand, what attitude to ake, where to go in the future-these were questions receiving constant attention
History and Memory in Vietnam Today
Amidst rapid socio-economic change, many Vietnamese are anxious to preserve some memories and traditions against the ravages of time. This essay examines Tap Chi Xua & Nay (Past and Present Journal), a popular publication of the Vietnam History Association, to demonstrate how history is being recreated and memory redefined even as the editors claim to uphold timeless patriotic verities
Asia in Australian higher education
Political Attitudes and Activities of Young Urban Intellectuals in South Viet-Nam
South Viet-Nam's urban youth-particularly the university and high school students-have played significant roles in the political ferment of the past three years. Beyond consistent furthering of particularistic interests, they have often served to mirror or to focus sharply the political interests of a much wider, albeit quantitatively indeterminate, portion of the population. This brief discussion is thus directed at the political activities and …
Political Attitudes and Activities of Young Urban Intellectuals in South Viet-Nam
South Viet-Nam's urban youth-particularly the university and high school students-have played significant roles in the political ferment of the past three years. Beyond consistent furthering of particularistic interests, they have often served to mirror or to focus sharply the political interests of a much wider, albeit quantitatively indeterminate, portion of the population. This brief discussion is thus directed at the political activities and …
Vietnamese Anticolonialism 1885–1925
The United States in Vietnam
This article delineates in detail several of the more important reasons why the United States government has failed to gain its will in Vietnam. First attention is given to factors in Vietnam history, ancient and modern, that were totally ignored by United States policy-makers as they moved into that distant land. Then, Communist leadership of the Vietnamese revolution beginning in 1945 is pointed up, as is the larger peasant/intelligentsia allia…
Intellectual functionaries
I would like to speak on the future of Vietnamese studies in North America from a perspective that I think we all can share—that is, the fact that these studies must exist in a university environment of some kind. Every one of us here, as part of the university community, has some real dilemmas to face, particularly those of us who specialize on Vietnam. I think most of us, to a degree, feel that there is something systematically wrong with our s…
Vietnamese sources on Vietnam
In trying to understand Vietnam and the Vietnamese people, Western readers have been dependent for the most part on only a handful of Western writers and journalists--almost none of whom have bothered to master the Vietnamese language. Actually, for many years this seemed not to discomfort either writers or readers. Among Americans in particular it might be said that a silent pact existed between specialist and audience, whereby the Vietnamese we…
Vietnamese Anticolonialism 1885-1925
The 1920s Women's Rights Debates in Vietnam
In the quarter century preceding the August 1945 Revolution, social change was a subject often on the minds of Vietnamese. People of diverse class backgrounds and political predilections knew that Vietnamese society was being altered fundamentally. How to understand, what attitude to ake, where to go in the future-these were questions receiving constant attention
Nationalism and Revolution in Vietnam
The state of the social sciences in Vietnam
On the side of a building in Hanoi, in bold red letters, are the words Ve Sinh La Yeu Nuoc, which can translate as “To be hygenic is to love your country.” I think that slogan tells us a lot about contemporary Vietnam. First of all, it demonstrates how patriotic imagery, so crucial to success over French colonialists and American imperialists, is still being given top emphasis in the post-1975 era of reconstruction and of development toward a mod…
This Nation and Socialism are One. Selected Writings of Le Duan
Ten Times More Beautiful
America in Vietnam
Vietnam
Barwick
Sino--Vietnamese Relations
The Fall of South Vietnam. Statements by Vietnamese Military and Civilian Leaders
A summary of extensive oral and written statements by twenty-seven former high-ranking South Vietnamese military officers and civilians on their perceptions of the causes of the collapse of South Vietnam in 1975
When Governments Collide. Coercion and Diplomacy in the Vietnam Conflict, 1964-1968
Asaa Southeast Asia publications series
Vietnamese Tradition on Trial, 1920-1945
The Communist Road to Power in Vietnam
Perceptions of the Past in Southeast Asia
On Strategy
Vietnamese Tradition on Trial, 1920-1945
Despite the historical importance of the Vietnam War, we know very little about what the Vietnamese people thought and felt prior to the conflict. Americans have tended to treat Vietnam as an extension of their own hopes and fears, successes and failures, rather than addressing the Vietnamese record. In this volume, David Marr offers the first serious intellectual history of Vietnam, focusing on the period just prior to full-scale revolutionary u…
Vietnam Under Communism, 1975-1982
Briefly noted
Suzanne Pepper, China's Universities: Post–Mao Enrolment Policies and Their Impact on the Structure of Secondary Education. A Research Report. Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies, No. 46. Centre for Chinese Studies, The University of Michigan Press, 1980. 156 pp. Cloth: US$13, paper: US$8 Georges Condominas & Richard Pottier, Les Réfugiés Originaires de L'Asie Du Sud–est; Rapport Au Président De La République, La Documentation Française, Paris…
Political science (44 works) · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies (37 works) · History (29 works) · Law (25 works) · Philosophy (22 works) · Vietnamese (18 works) · Sociology (17 works) · Politics (16 works) · Law (15 works) · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis (14 works)