R B Smith
Biographic Data
| ID | 3839 |
|---|---|
| NAME | R B Smith |
| GIVEN NAMES | R B |
| FAMILY NAME | Smith |
| SIGNATURE | SMITH R B |
| AFFILIATIONS | SOAS University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4262-4279 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 55 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 62 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 55 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1925 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Matthew Levering, The Abuse of Conscience: A Century of Moral Theology
Historical explanation: From narrative to causation – and back
This article reflects on the relationship between historical writing and enquiry and philosophy, and more particularly the manner in which the pursuit of a particular natural philosophy can influence historical narratives. The article begins with a comparison of Roman and Greek approaches to history, employing a distinction between narrative and logic. It goes on to consider the impact of Christianity, the relationship between enlightenment narra…
R.G. Collingwood's definition of historical knowledge
R.G. Collingwood defined historical knowledge as essentially ‘scientific’, and saw the historian's task as the ‘re-enactment of past thoughts’. The author argues the need to go beyond Collingwood, first by demonstrating the authenticity of available evidence, and secondly, using Namier as an example, by considering methodology as well as epistemology, and the need to relate past thoughts to their present context. The ‘law of the consumption of ti…
Changing Visions of East Asia, 1943-93: Transformations and Continuities
Choosing War in Vietnam
Vietnam from the 1890s to the 1990s: Continuity and Change in the Longer Perspective
The paper seeks to define and explore some of the problems in the evolution of Vietnam as a country during the past one hundred years, focusing on institutional and economic continuity and change rather than on political conflict and war; and emphasizing the internal perspective rather than that of international relations. Its four sections deal, first with some general aspects of change and continuity in the period 1890–1990; with the importance…
The International Setting of the Cambodia Crisis, 1969–1970
(1996). The International Setting of the Cambodia Crisis, 1969–1970. The International History Review: Vol. 18, No. 2, pp. 303-335
The war within: America's battle over Vietnam
Journal Article The war within: America's battle over Vietnam Get access The war within: America's battle over Vietnam. By Tom Wells. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. 1994. 706pp. Index. £27.50. ISBN 0 520 08367 9. Ralph Smith Ralph Smith 1School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 71, Issue 1, January 1995, Page 1…
Vietnam at the crossroads
Journal Article Vietnam at the crossroads Get access Vietnam at the crossroads. By Michael C. Williams. London: Pinter for The Royal Institute of International Affairs. 1992. 104pp. £22.50; ISBN 1 85567 051 8. Pb.: £8.95 ; ISBN 1 85567 052 6. Ralph Smith Ralph Smith 1School of Oriental and African Studies, London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 69, Issue 1, January 1993, Page …
Siam becomes Thailand: A story of intrigue
An International History of the Vietnam War
The Cambridge history of China, Vol 14: The People's Republic, Part 1: The emergence of revolutionary China, 1949–1965
Journal Article The Cambridge history of China, Vol 14: The People's Republic, Part 1: The emergence of revolutionary China, 1949–1965 Get access The Cambridge history of China, Vol 14: The People's Republic, Part 1: The emergence of revolutionary China, 1949–1965. Edited By Roderick MacFarquharand John K. Fairbank. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1987. 725pp. Index. ISBN 052124336X. R. B. Smith R. B. Smith 1School of Oriental & African St…
The star raft: China's encounter with Africa
The star raft: China's encounter with Africa Get access The star raft: China's encounter with Africa. By Philip Snow. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. 1988. 250pp. Index. £14.95. ISBN 0 297 709081 1. R. B. Smith R. B. Smith 1School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 65, Issue 1, January 1988, Page 181, https://doi.org/10.2307/26…
China and Southeast Asia: The Revolutionary Perspective, 1951
Controversy still surrounds the question whether the communist-led uprisings which developed across Southeast Asia during the months from March to September 1948 were the outcome of a deliberate international communist strategy or merely the product of coincidental decisions by individual communist parties. Equally controversial, although less frequently discussed, is the suggestion that during the early months of 1950 the Chinese Communist Party…
Making revolution: The Communist movement in eastern and central China, 1937–1945
Journal Article Making revolution: the Communist movement in eastern and central China, 1937–1945 Get access Making revolution: the Communist movement in eastern and central China, 1937–1945. By Yung-fa Chen. Berkeley, CA, London: University of California Press. 1986. R. B. Smith R. B. Smith 1School of Oriental and African Studies, London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 63, Is…
Mongolia: Politics, economics and society
Journal Article Mongolia: politics, economics and society Get access Mongolia: politics, economics and society. By Alan J. K. Sanders. London: Pinter. 1987. 179pp. Index. £22.50; ISBN 0 86187 430 7. Pb.: £6.95; ISBN 0 86187 431 5. R. B. Smith R. B. Smith 1School of Oriental & African Studies, London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 64, Issue 1, Winter 1987, Pages 154–155, https…
An International History of the Vietnam War: The Kennedy Strategy
Journal Article An International History of the Vietnam War: The Kennedy Strategy. By R. B. Smith. (New York: St. Martin's, 1985. xii + 429 pp. $25.00.) Get access Richard H. Immerman Richard H. Immerman University of HawaiiManoa Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 73, Issue 2, September 1986, Pages 523–524, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908332 Published: 01 September 1986
An International History of the Vietnam War: The Kennedy Strategy
An International History of the Vietnam War: The Struggle for South-East Asia, 1961-65
An International History of the Vietnam War
Southeast Asia: Essays in the political economy of structural change
Journal Article Southeast Asia: essays in the political economy of structural change Get access Southeast Asia: essays in the political economy of structural change. Edited by Richard Higgott and Richard Robison. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul. 1985. 340 pp. Index. £18.00. ISBN 0 7102 0325 X. Pb.: £9.95. ISBN 0 7102 0471 X. R. B. Smith R. B. Smith 1School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London Search for other works by this autho…
Perceived Origins of Teaching Behavior
What impact does a teacher education program have as a source of ideas for subsequent teaching practice? To an swer this question, Clark and his col leagues collected "origins" behavior for 71 student teachers and first-year teachers. Through systematic class room observation of the subjects, 1,346 teaching behaviors were observed and analyzed. Immediately after a behavior was exhibited, the teacher described what he or she perceived as the origi…
Cambodia in the context of Sino-Vietnamese relations
Advice and Support: The Early Years, 1941-1960
L'Indochine Francaise, 1940-1945
The Japanese Period in Indochina and the Coup of 9 March 1945
For the greater part of the period from 1940 to 1945, French Indochina occupied a peculiar place in the Co-Prosperity Sphere of Great East Asia. Following the capitulation of France before the German army in June 1940, the northern part of Indochina became the first area in Southeast Asia to admit Japanese troops — at that stage, as an extension of the Japanese campaign in southern China. In July 1941 the Japanese advance into southern Indochina …
Bui Quang Chiêu and the Constitutionalist Party in French Cochinchina, 1917-30
The years 1916-17 were something of a turning-point in the development of Vietnamese nationalism. In Cochinchina an abortive attack on Saigon central prison in February 1916 was followed by a great many arrests and the virtual destruction, for the time being, of the network of secret societies which had grown up in many of the colony's provinces during the previous decade. Many members of such societies were brought before special military tribun…
China and Southeast Asia: The Revolutionary Perspective, 1951
Controversy still surrounds the question whether the communist-led uprisings which developed across Southeast Asia during the months from March to September 1948 were the outcome of a deliberate international communist strategy or merely the product of coincidental decisions by individual communist parties. Equally controversial, although less frequently discussed, is the suggestion that during the early months of 1950 the Chinese Communist Party…
Early South-East Asia
The Vietnamese Élite of French Cochinchina, 1943
It is well-known that the French colonial theory of assimilation, even though it could never be carried out completely in practice, implied the development in French colonies of an indigenous élite of people prepared to accept both French culture and a (subordinate) role in the running of the colony. In French Cochinchina, this élite was especially important owing to the circumstances of the conquest, between 1860 and 1867, when most of the Vietn…
Siam becomes Thailand: A story of intrigue
Mongolia: Politics, economics and society
Journal Article Mongolia: politics, economics and society Get access Mongolia: politics, economics and society. By Alan J. K. Sanders. London: Pinter. 1987. 179pp. Index. £22.50; ISBN 0 86187 430 7. Pb.: £6.95; ISBN 0 86187 431 5. R. B. Smith R. B. Smith 1School of Oriental & African Studies, London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 64, Issue 1, Winter 1987, Pages 154–155, https…
Perceived Origins of Teaching Behavior
What impact does a teacher education program have as a source of ideas for subsequent teaching practice? To an swer this question, Clark and his col leagues collected "origins" behavior for 71 student teachers and first-year teachers. Through systematic class room observation of the subjects, 1,346 teaching behaviors were observed and analyzed. Immediately after a behavior was exhibited, the teacher described what he or she perceived as the origi…
A Reader in Social Administration
Sino-Vietnamese sources for the Nguyễn Period: An Introduction
Les livres historiques sont rares en pays annamite: le climat et les guerres ont concouru a les de truire.' When he wrote those words in 1904 Pelliot no doubt hoped that they would be true only of the past; but the troubled history of Việt-Nam in the middle decades of the twentieth century has made them also prophetic. Before modern methods for combating the climate could be brought to bear on the problem of archive preservation further wars occu…
Historical explanation: From narrative to causation – and back
This article reflects on the relationship between historical writing and enquiry and philosophy, and more particularly the manner in which the pursuit of a particular natural philosophy can influence historical narratives. The article begins with a comparison of Roman and Greek approaches to history, employing a distinction between narrative and logic. It goes on to consider the impact of Christianity, the relationship between enlightenment narra…
The Cambridge history of China, Vol 14: The People's Republic, Part 1: The emergence of revolutionary China, 1949–1965
Journal Article The Cambridge history of China, Vol 14: The People's Republic, Part 1: The emergence of revolutionary China, 1949–1965 Get access The Cambridge history of China, Vol 14: The People's Republic, Part 1: The emergence of revolutionary China, 1949–1965. Edited By Roderick MacFarquharand John K. Fairbank. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1987. 725pp. Index. ISBN 052124336X. R. B. Smith R. B. Smith 1School of Oriental & African St…
The star raft: China's encounter with Africa
The star raft: China's encounter with Africa Get access The star raft: China's encounter with Africa. By Philip Snow. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. 1988. 250pp. Index. £14.95. ISBN 0 297 709081 1. R. B. Smith R. B. Smith 1School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 65, Issue 1, January 1988, Page 181, https://doi.org/10.2307/26…
An introduction to Caodaism II. Beliefs and Organization
The religion of Cao-Dai is fundamentally, and deliberately, syncretic. Since it includes Christ and Moses (but for some reason, not Muhammad) in its pantheon, the Western student might be tempted to see it as essentially an attempt to bridge the gulf between East and West by finding a sort of middle way between Christianity and Buddhism. It is possible that some Caodaists who have acquired a thorough Western education in France but maintained the…
The International Setting of the Cambodia Crisis, 1969–1970
(1996). The International Setting of the Cambodia Crisis, 1969–1970. The International History Review: Vol. 18, No. 2, pp. 303-335
The war within: America's battle over Vietnam
Journal Article The war within: America's battle over Vietnam Get access The war within: America's battle over Vietnam. By Tom Wells. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. 1994. 706pp. Index. £27.50. ISBN 0 520 08367 9. Ralph Smith Ralph Smith 1School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 71, Issue 1, January 1995, Page 1…
Making revolution: The Communist movement in eastern and central China, 1937–1945
Journal Article Making revolution: the Communist movement in eastern and central China, 1937–1945 Get access Making revolution: the Communist movement in eastern and central China, 1937–1945. By Yung-fa Chen. Berkeley, CA, London: University of California Press. 1986. R. B. Smith R. B. Smith 1School of Oriental and African Studies, London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 63, Is…
Vietnam: The Revolutionary Path
Journal Article Vietnam: The Revolutionary Path Get access Vietnam: The Revolutionary Path. By Thomas Hodgkin. London: Macmillan. 1981. 433 pp.£25.00. R. B. Smith R. B. Smith 1School of Oriental and African Studies, London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 58, Issue 2, Spring 1982, Pages 385–386, https://doi.org/10.2307/2618052 Published: 01 April 1982
History of Vietnamese Communism, 1925–1976
Journal Article History of Vietnamese Communism, 1925–1976 Get access History of Vietnamese Communism, 1925–1976. By Douglas Pike. Stanford, Calif: Hoover Institution Press. 1978. 181 pp. Pb: $5.95. R. B. Smith R. B. Smith 1School of Oriental and African Studies, London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 55, Issue 1, January 1979, Pages 166–167, https://doi.org/10.2307/2617207 Pu…
The Work of the Provisional Government of Vietnam, August-December 1945
The main outlines of the Vietnamese Revolution of 1945-46 are by now well enough known to Western scholars, through the writings of Philippe Devillers, B. B. Fall, K. C. Chen and J. T. McAlister. But the detailed history of Vietnam during that period remains to be written; in particular only very scant treatment has so far been accorded to the actual political record of the Viet-Minh Provisional Government, which was established in Hanoi by Ho Ch…
Vietnamese Communism: Its Origins and Development
Journal Article Vietnamese Communism: Its Origins and Development Get access Vietnamese Communism: Its Origins and Development. By Robert F. Turner. Stanford, Calif.: Hoover Institution Press. 1975. 517 pp. $14.95. R. B. Smith R. B. Smith 1School of Oriental and African Studies, London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 52, Issue 2, April 1976, Page 310, https://doi.org/10.2307/2…
The teaching of public speaking in law schools
(1925). The teaching of public speaking in law schools. Quarterly Journal of Speech: Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 54-57
Viet-Nam: The Lotus in the Sea of Fire, Rural Pacification in Vietnam, Viet-Nam: Politics and Public Administration and Hô Chi Minh
Viet-nam Witness 1953–66
Journal Article Viet-nam Witness 1953–66 Get access Viet-nam Witness 1953–66. By Bernard B. Fall. London: Pall Mall. 1966. 363 pp. Bibliog. Index. 50s. R. B. Smith R. B. Smith Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 43, Issue 2, April 1967, Page 402, https://doi.org/10.2307/2614404 Published: 01 April 1967
Sino-Vietnamese sources for the Nguyễn Period: An Introduction
Les livres historiques sont rares en pays annamite: le climat et les guerres ont concouru a les de truire.' When he wrote those words in 1904 Pelliot no doubt hoped that they would be true only of the past; but the troubled history of Việt-Nam in the middle decades of the twentieth century has made them also prophetic. Before modern methods for combating the climate could be brought to bear on the problem of archive preservation further wars occu…
South-East Asia: Race, Culture and Nation
Vietnam: A Dragon Embattled. Vol. I. From Colonialism to the Vietminh. Vol. II. Vietnam at War, The United States in Vietnam, Behind the Lines—Hanoi. December 23, 1966—January 7, 1967 and Victor Charl…
Journal Article Vietnam: A Dragon Embattled. Vol. I. From Colonialism to the Vietminh. Vol. II. Vietnam at War, The United States in Vietnam, Behind the Lines—Hanoi. December 23, 1966—January 7, 1967 and Victor Charlie: The Face of War in Viet-Nam Get access Vietnam: A Dragon Embattled. Vol. I. From Colonialism to the Vietminh. Vol. II. Vietnam at War. By Joseph Buttinger. London: Pall Mall. 1967. 1346 pp. Bibliog. Index. 130s. Set of 2 vols.The …
Vietnam Task: The 5th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment, 1966/67, Vietnam l'Heure Décisive: L'offensive du Têt (Février 1968) and Revolutionary Warfare and Communist Strategy: The Threat to Sou…
Journal Article Vietnam Task: The 5th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment, 1966/67, Vietnam l'Heure Décisive: L'offensive du Têt (Février 1968) and Revolutionary Warfare and Communist Strategy: The Threat to South-East Asia Get access Vietnam Task: The 5th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment, 1966/67. By Robert J. O'Neill. Foreword by Lieut.-Gen. Sir Reginald Pollard. Melbourne, London: Cassell Australia. 1968. 256 pp. Index. 50s.Vietna…
A Reader in Social Administration
Revolution, Power and Ideology in Viet-Nam
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Bui Quang Chiêu and the Constitutionalist Party in French Cochinchina, 1917-30
The years 1916-17 were something of a turning-point in the development of Vietnamese nationalism. In Cochinchina an abortive attack on Saigon central prison in February 1916 was followed by a great many arrests and the virtual destruction, for the time being, of the network of secret societies which had grown up in many of the colony's provinces during the previous decade. Many members of such societies were brought before special military tribun…
An introduction to Caodaism II. Beliefs and Organization
The religion of Cao-Dai is fundamentally, and deliberately, syncretic. Since it includes Christ and Moses (but for some reason, not Muhammad) in its pantheon, the Western student might be tempted to see it as essentially an attempt to bridge the gulf between East and West by finding a sort of middle way between Christianity and Buddhism. It is possible that some Caodaists who have acquired a thorough Western education in France but maintained the…
Letters
The Development of Opposition to French Rule in Southern Vietnam 1880-1940
THE DEVELOPMENT OF OPPOSITION TO FRENCH RULE IN SOUTHERN VIETNAM 1880–1940 Get access R. B. Smith R. B. Smith School of Oriental and African StudiesLondon Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 54, Issue 1, February 1972, Pages 94–129, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/54.1.94 Published: 01 February 1972
The Vietnamese Élite of French Cochinchina, 1943
It is well-known that the French colonial theory of assimilation, even though it could never be carried out completely in practice, implied the development in French colonies of an indigenous élite of people prepared to accept both French culture and a (subordinate) role in the running of the colony. In French Cochinchina, this élite was especially important owing to the circumstances of the conquest, between 1860 and 1867, when most of the Vietn…
Land and Politics in the England of Henry VIII: The West Riding of Yorkshire, 1530-1546
Aspects of Vietnamese History: Asian Studies at Hawaii, No. 8
Short Notices
Journal Article SHORT NOTICES Get access R. B. SMITH R. B. SMITH School of Oriental and African StudiesUniversity of London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume LXXXIX, Issue CCCL, January 1974, Pages 225–226, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/LXXXIX.CCCL.225 Published: 01 January 1974
Politics and Society in Viet-Nam during the Early Nguyen Period (1802–62)
Professor A. B. Woodside's recent study of Vietnamese government and society in the first half of the nineteenth century is likely to become immediately a standard work for the teaching of South-East Asian history, as well as a point of departure for further research. It is the first attempt by a Western scholar to analyse the institutional developments of a period in which Viêt-Nam attained its greatest measure of “Confucianization” and also its…
Peace is not at Hand
Peace is not at Hand Get access Peace is not at Hand. By Robert Thompson. Toronto: Clarke, Irwin and Co.; London: Chatto and Windus. 1974. 208 pp. Illus. Maps. Index. £4.00. R. B. Smith R. B. Smith Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 51, Issue 2, April 1975, Pages 293–294, https://doi.org/10.2307/2617284 Published: 01 April 1975
Vietnamese Communism: Its Origins and Development
Journal Article Vietnamese Communism: Its Origins and Development Get access Vietnamese Communism: Its Origins and Development. By Robert F. Turner. Stanford, Calif.: Hoover Institution Press. 1975. 517 pp. $14.95. R. B. Smith R. B. Smith 1School of Oriental and African Studies, London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 52, Issue 2, April 1976, Page 310, https://doi.org/10.2307/2…
Short review and book note
Lott, God and the universe in the vedāntic theology of Rāmānuja: a study in his use of the self-body analogy, E. J., Madras, India: Ramanuja Research Society, 1976, pp. 242. £2.85 Eliade, Mircea, Zalmoxis: The vanishing god: Comparative studies in the religious and folklore of Dacia and eastern Europe, translated by Willard R. Trask. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1972, pp. 260. £7.05 Baker, Derek (ed.), The orthodox churche…
The Rise of Nationalism in Vietnam, 1900–1941
Journal Article The Rise of Nationalism in Vietnam, 1900–1941 Get access The Rise of Nationalism in Vietnam, 1900–1941. By William J. Duiker. Ithaca, London: Cornell University Press. 1976. 313 pp. £10.50. R. B. Smith R. B. Smith 1School of Oriental and African Studies, London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 53, Issue 1, January 1977, Pages 156–157, https://doi.org/10.2307/261…
Southeast Asia in International Politics 1941–1956
Journal Article Southeast Asia in International Politics 1941–1956 Get access Southeast Asia in International Politics 1941–1956. By Evelyn Colbert. Ithaca, London: Cornell University Press 1977. 372 pp. £13.15. R. B. Smith R. B. Smith 1School of Oriental and African Studies, London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 54, Issue 1, January 1978, Pages 164–165, https://doi.org/10.23…
The Japanese Period in Indochina and the Coup of 9 March 1945
For the greater part of the period from 1940 to 1945, French Indochina occupied a peculiar place in the Co-Prosperity Sphere of Great East Asia. Following the capitulation of France before the German army in June 1940, the northern part of Indochina became the first area in Southeast Asia to admit Japanese troops — at that stage, as an extension of the Japanese campaign in southern China. In July 1941 the Japanese advance into southern Indochina …
The Work of the Provisional Government of Vietnam, August-December 1945
The main outlines of the Vietnamese Revolution of 1945-46 are by now well enough known to Western scholars, through the writings of Philippe Devillers, B. B. Fall, K. C. Chen and J. T. McAlister. But the detailed history of Vietnam during that period remains to be written; in particular only very scant treatment has so far been accorded to the actual political record of the Viet-Minh Provisional Government, which was established in Hanoi by Ho Ch…
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