{"product_id":"2026100009900-secondhand-the-vietnamese-nation-contribution-to-a-history","title":"The Vietnamese Nation: Contribution To A History","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Fair\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Wear and tear with damage\u003cbr\u003ePages: Yellowed\u003cbr\u003eMarkings: Previous owner\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the crossroads of colonial ambition and national resistance stands Vietnam — a nation whose history is as turbulent as it is misunderstood — and Jean Chesneaux's The Vietnamese Nation: Contribution to a History presents a rigorous, authoritative account of this remarkable civilisation from its ancient roots to its modern struggles. Translated by Malcolm Salmon from the original French, this scholarly work chronicles the formation of Vietnamese national identity through centuries of foreign domination, peasant uprisings, and the relentless drive for self-determination, grounding its arguments in the social and economic forces that shaped a people long before the world's cameras turned their lenses southward.\n\nWritten by a distinguished historian from the École Pratique des Hautes Études at the Sorbonne, Paris, this work argues that Vietnamese history cannot be understood through a purely Western colonial lens — it must be read on its own terms, through its own internal dynamics. Chesneaux's Marxist-influenced methodology illuminates the class structures, rural economies, and nationalist movements that gave rise to one of the twentieth century's most defining conflicts. Published in Sydney in 1966, at the very height of global debate over the Vietnam War, The Vietnamese Nation remains an essential — and urgently relevant — primer for anyone seeking to understand not just what happened in Vietnam, but why.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49203395657947,"sku":"2026100009900-SECONDHAND","price":25.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/476db24b-9b7d-4b00-92a3-ecf5e621caa5.png?v=1788148561","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100009900-secondhand-the-vietnamese-nation-contribution-to-a-history","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}