Why, of all the countries in Southeast Asia, was it only in Vietnam that the struggle for national independence led to a Communist Party-led revolution? Drawing on a rich and growing body of revisionist scholarship, this lecture suggests that the answer lies beyond the borders of Vietnam and the boundaries of Vietnamese nationalism. Viewed in regional […]
Can children be historical actors? The proposition that children have historical agency has been a rallying cry for many historians of childhood who seek to recover the voices and actions of young people in the past, arguing that their history is analogous to that of other disenfranchised and marginalized groups and must be recovered in […]