Remembering a Vietnam War Firefight: Changing Perspectives over Time

Intense, deadly combat is one of the most traumatic of humanexperiences. How veterans remember it and how they retell it,is explored in this article by Marine Corps Oral Historian FredH. Allison. Allison compares two interviews of the same Marinetalking about the same horrific Vietnam firefight in which fiveof eight Marines on a reconnaissance patrol were killed. Oneinterview took place in-country two days after the firefight,the other 34 years later. The early interview is an oral snapshotof the world of a combat Marine, while the later interview isa study in how memory reconstructs a combat experience. In comparingthe two interviews the reader can begin to understand how veterans'memory works to organize and make comprehensible an event thatmight not have been orderly or comprehensible in the first place.     

The Conflict over Property Rights during the Second World War: The Labour Party's Abandonment of Land Nationalization

The Second World War brought about a dramatic increase in supportfor land-use control in urban areas primarily as a result ofthe impact of the blitz on British cities. The wartime controversyover land reform reached a climax during the second half of1944 following the publication of the Government's Town andCountry Planning Bill and the White Paper on Control of Land-Use.Up until 1945 the Labour Party supported a policy of land nationalization,but this was not included in the manifesto for the 1945 GeneralElection. This article will argue that the Labour Party abandoneda policy of land nationalization not because it feared the creationof internal divisions or damaging its electoral chances (supportfor land nationalization was anyway running high in the opinionpolls), but that it was responding to pressure from Labour localgovernment for more immediate housing and town planning reform.     

The Geographical Names of Vietnam

A Soviet place-name specialist analyzes the structure of Vietnamese place names on the basis of his attendance at a place-name seminar in Hanoi and a field trip through North Vietnam in 1963–64. Similarities with Chinese place names are found, particularly in the names of administrative divisions and towns. A wide range of generic terms, some of limited local use in mountain and river names, is discussed. The possible derivation of well-known place names such as Hanoi, Saigon, Mekong, etc., is analyzed.     

An Unequal Apportionment: The Conflict over Space Between Protestants and Catholics at the Beginning of the Wars of Religion

Although theological and political aspects of the Wars of Religionhave been extensively studied, their spatial dimension has oftenbeen neglected. Despite the plethora of urban monographs, spacehas been considered as the setting rather than the object ofconflict. On account of its scarcity, space brought a varietyof benefits and accordingly generated strategies of appropriationand exclusion for which the two confessions were unequally prepared.If Charles IX was the first to ‘tolerate’ Protestants,he almost always confined them to domestic space or excludedthem from the centre of towns. Employing a sociology of dominationdrawn from the work of Pierre Bourdieu, this article seeks toexamine the unequal situation of the two confessions from aspatial perspective, refusing to explain this difference solelyby recourse to theological concepts. On the contrary, it attemptsto show how, in a manner that requires explanation, socioconfessionalinequalities were transformed into spatial ones.

The space which before any other seems to me to raise the problemand manifest just that strong social and historical differentiationbetween societies is the space of exclusion—of exclusionand imprisonment. Michel Foucault, La scène de la philosophie(1978)¹

     

越南冰咖啡

一直很喜欢闻咖啡的香味．那种令人心醉的香甜．让我无法抵抗。越南咖啡缘起于廿世纪初期法国非常盛行的滴滤咖啡．随着法国与越南的殖民关系而引入越南。喝咖啡是越南人的日常习惯．越南咖啡馆很家常,不是什么高消费场所．普通的也就几块钱人民币。在越南．似乎总是在夏季中煎熬．这里的茶、可乐、豆奶、咖啡．纯净水……全都要加冰块．咖啡也不例外。     

邻居越南

从地图上看,越南和中国是挨着的邻居,可以用"山水相连"来形容。云南的元江出境后就是越南的红河,而源出青海省唐古拉山北麓的澜沧江流出国境就是越南著名的湄公河。近些年,越南成为出境旅游的热线。     

试析1968年美国天主教会内部的"生命权"问题之争

围绕罗马教皇在1968年发布的《人类生命》通谕是否具有合理性问题,美国天主教会内部存在严重分歧,教会上层保守派一方的意见最终占据了主导地位,从而在伦理道德领域确立了美国天主教会延续至今的宗教保守主义立场。教会从此成为反对人工控制生育的中坚力量。其保守立场成为天主教会同其他教派,尤其是新基督教右翼派别的合作基础。     

The Traditional Boats of Vietnam,an Overview

This paper addresses the material boat culture of Vietnam both in its current context and more specifically through an assessment of how the boats of Vietnam have been studied in the past. It presents a comprehensive summary of past publications describing the construction, use and variety of boats in the region, from the earliest volumes to modern research projects, including the work of the US military. It highlights the rich diversity of construction approaches and boat‐types that are still built and used, and demonstrates the need for further field research to record the fast‐disappearing traditional boats of Vietnam. © 2010 The Authors