Overview
- Traces Vietnamese engagement with modernity over the long twentieth century
- Documents transformation from an early modern kingdom to a European colony, to a divided land, to a unified country
- Considers multiple forms of modernity and links these to the different political moments that Vietnam experienced
- This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access
Part of the book series: Global Vietnam: Across Time, Space and Community (GVATSC)
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About this book
This open access book provides fascinating insights into the incredible changes that Vietnam underwent in the long twentieth century as it transformed from an early modern kingdom to a European colony, to a divided land with opposing ideologies, and to a unified country in a globalized world. At each stage in this long century of changes, there were Vietnamese who sought to mold their society into some vision of “modernity.” The book looks at multiple, rather than one form of modernity, and links those forms with the different political moments that Vietnam experienced, in tandem with the outside interlocutors that were maintained during those periods. As such, this book provides a holistic view of the many forms of modernity and their global links that can be found in Vietnam over the course of the long twentieth century. These multiple modernities are documented in this book, and the authors do so by bringing together the strengths of “traditional” language-based area studies scholarship with the insights that an awareness of trans-national and global perspectives provides. Relevant to historians and researchers in the broader arena of Southeast Asian studies with a particular interest in Vietnam—its journey from past to present—this book is a must-read engagement with a country that has undergone and continues to experience, rapid transformation.
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Liam C. Kelley is an historian of Vietnam and Southeast Asia. His research and publications have focused on premodern Vietnamese history and the transition to modernity in the early twentieth century. For roughly the past decade, he has also co-organized the Engaging With Vietnam (EWV) conference series and in recent years has served as the editor for various publication projects emerging from EWV conferences, including the volume Vietnam at the Vanguard: New Perspectives Across Time, Space, and Community (Springer, 2021).
Gerard Sasges is an historian of technology, development, and the environment, with a focus on Vietnam from 1900 to the present. His research uses non-Western histories of technology to reshape our understanding of development under capitalist and socialist regimes and its relationship to the environment and to lived experience. He has recently published a monograph entitled Imperial Intoxication: Alcohol and the Making of Colonial Indochina (University of Hawaii Press, 2017).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Vietnam Over the Long Twentieth Century
Book Subtitle: Becoming Modern, Going Global
Editors: Liam C. Kelley, Gerard Sasges
Series Title: Global Vietnam: Across Time, Space and Community
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-3611-9
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-97-3610-2Published: 23 July 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-97-3613-3Due: 06 August 2025
eBook ISBN: 978-981-97-3611-9Published: 22 July 2024
Series ISSN: 2731-7552
Series E-ISSN: 2731-7560
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 204
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations, 6 illustrations in colour
Topics: Asian History, History of Education, Political History, Imperialism and Colonialism, Asian Politics, Gender Studies