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- The Tây Son Uprising: Society and Rebellion in Eighteenth-Century Vietnam
- Book
- 2006
- Published by: University of Hawai'i Press
- Series: Southeast Asia: Politics, Meaning, and Memory
summary
The Tây So’n uprising (1771–1802) was a cataclysmic event that profoundly altered the eighteenth-century Vietnamese political and social landscape. This groundbreaking book offers a new look at an important and controversial era. George Dutton follows three brothers from the hamlet of Tây So’n as they led a heterogeneous military force that ousted ruling families in both halves of the divided Vietnamese territories and eventually toppled the 350-year-old Lè dynasty. Supplementing Vietnamese primary sources with extensive use of archival European missionary accounts, he explores the dynamics of an event that affected every region of the country and every level of society. Tracing the manner in which the Tây So’n leaders transformed an inchoate uprising into a new political regime, Dutton challenges common depictions of the Tây So’n brothers as visionaries or revolutionaries. Instead, he reveals them as political opportunists whose worldview remained constrained by their provincial origins and the exigencies of ongoing warfare and political struggles.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. ix-x
- Introduction
- pp. 1-17
- 2. The Leaders: Laying Claim to Power
- pp. 57-118
- Conclusion: Looking Back and Looking Ahead
- pp. 229-234
- Bibliography
- pp. 271-284
Additional Information
ISBN
9780824865078
Related ISBN(s)
9780824829841
MARC Record
OCLC
608704980
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No