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Titel Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Notes from a Small Island -- 2. Down and Out in Hobart and Risdon -- 3. The Man in Black -- 4. Genocide is Painless -- Coda -- 5. The People's Poet -- Postscript for Macarthur -- 6. Batman Begins Melbourne (and Other Stories) -- 7. Faith, Frauds and Frontier Justice -- 8. The New Colossus -- 9. We've Golden Soil -- 10. Under the Southern Cross I Stand -- 11. Across Australia by Bath -- 12. A Widow's Son Outlawed -- 13. Such is Life -- Acknowledgements -- Index -- Back Cover

A social history of the Vietnam War -- An itinerant peasantry -- The peasant revolt of 1959 - 1960 -- Contested unities of the golden period -- The popular movement and the generational divide -- Modern girls and new women -- Escalation at ground level -- Mapping the exodus -- The American other -- Fate of the liberated zone -- "Live hour, live minute" -- The Tet Offensive -- Appendix: The uses of a source

Alterations in the spending habits of country people constitute one thread in the history of Vietnamese society in the 1960s. Some welcomed and others objected to mass-produced consumer goods and especially to new forms of dress. The ensuing controversy played out amidst the violent crosscurrents of the Vietnam War and led to dissension within the ranks of the National Liberation Front and in the Sài Gòn milieu. The last word belongs to villagers who, in trying to sort out the meanings of new commodities, were trying to decide what sort of future they wished for their country.