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Author: Van Nguyen-Marshall
Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Imprint: Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Edition: New edition
Weight: 0.480kg
ISBN: 9781433102158
ISBN 10: 1433102153
Pages: 182
Publication Date: 03 March 2008
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Reviews
«This book could be considered a breakthrough work in the social and intellectual history of colonial Asia. It examines how Southeast Asian thinkers, in this instance Vietnamese ones, approached the problems of poverty and poverty relief in their country while they were disempowered subjects of European colonialism. The author draws on the various insights of specialists in postcolonial studies, geography, economics and history but also on an abundance of Vietnamese sources; she skilfully shows both how mutable colonial Vietnamese elite representations of poverty could be, but also how that elite could nonetheless claim new forms of moral and political authority for itself, even under colonial rule, by thinking in old and new ways about poverty relief. -- Alexander Woodside
"""This book could be considered a breakthrough work in the social and intellectual history of colonial Asia. It examines how Southeast Asian thinkers, in this instance Vietnamese ones, approached the problems of poverty and poverty relief in their country while they were disempowered subjects of European colonialism. The author draws on the various insights of specialists in postcolonial studies, geography, economics and history but also on an abundance of Vietnamese sources; she skilfully shows both how mutable colonial Vietnamese elite representations of poverty could be, but also how that elite could nonetheless claim new forms of moral and political authority for itself, even under colonial rule, by thinking in old and new ways about poverty relief."" (Alexander Woodside, History Department, University of British Columbia)"
""This book could be considered a breakthrough work in the social and intellectual history of colonial Asia. It examines how Southeast Asian thinkers, in this instance Vietnamese ones, approached the problems of poverty and poverty relief in their country while they were disempowered subjects of European colonialism. The author draws on the various insights of specialists in postcolonial studies, geography, economics and history but also on an abundance of Vietnamese sources; she skilfully shows both how mutable colonial Vietnamese elite representations of poverty could be, but also how that elite could nonetheless claim new forms of moral and political authority for itself, even under colonial rule, by thinking in old and new ways about poverty relief."" (Alexander Woodside, History Department, University of British Columbia)
Author Information
The Author: Van Nguyen-Marshall received her Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia and is Assistant Professor of History at Trent University in Ontario, Canada.
