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Encyclopedic works and encyclopedias focused on Vietnam War-related topics. Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War, compiled by Stanley I. Kutler, published in 1996 by Charles Scribner's Sons. Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War: a political, social, and military history, compiled by Spencer C. Tucker, first published in 1998 by ABC-CLIO.
Vietnam, [e] [f] officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, [g] is a country at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of about 331,000 square kilometres (128,000 sq mi) and a population of over 100 million, making it the world's fifteenth-most populous country.
US State Department – Vietnam includes Background Notes, Country Study and major reports; US Library of Congress – Country Study: Vietnam; Information about Vietnam: from the Vietnamese Ministry of Foreign Affair; M&A Market in Vietnam's Transition Economy: Vuong, Q.H et al., 2010. Journal of Economic Policy and Research, Vol. 5, No. 1, pp ...
Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers. New York: Viking Press. Bob Fink. 1981 Vietnam, A View from the Walls. Detroit: Greenwich Publishing. ISBN 0-912424-08-7. Frances FitzGerald. 1972. Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam. Boston: Little Brown and Company. Felix Greene. 1966. VIETNAM! VIETNAM!
Vietnam's ethnic mosaic results from the peopling process in which various peoples came and settled the territory, leading to the modern state of Vietnam by many stages, often separated by thousands of years over a duration of tens of thousands of years. Vietnam's entire history, thus, is an embroidery of polyethnicity. [11]
The encyclopedia was published by Vietnam's Encyclopedia Publishing House, a constituent unit of Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences. Arranged by Vietnamese-alphabet order, the encyclopedia covers diverse topics ranging from history to child rearing. Since then, it has been converted to electronic versions (CD and ebook) and a free online version.
Tension between Vietnam and China mounted together with China's rivalry with the Soviet Union and conflict erupted with Cambodia, China's ally. Vietnam was also subject to trade embargoes by the U.S. and its allies. [citation needed] The SRVN government implemented a Stalinist dictatorship of the proletariat in the South as they had done in the ...
[8] [9] For example, only 450,000 voters were registered in Saigon, but 605,025 were said to have voted for Diệm. On 26 October, Diệm proclaimed the Republic of Vietnam—widely known as South Vietnam—whose reformed army, with American assistance, pursued the conflict with North Vietnam; the Viet Cong replaced the Viet Minh, in the ...