{"product_id":"mandarins-and-martyrs-9780804756518","title":"Mandarins and Martyrs","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book is about the rise of anti-Catholic violence in early nineteenth-century Vietnam under the Nguyen Dynasty, and the profound social and political changes it created in the decades preceding French colonialism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The most persuasive and well-documented picture currently available of the relationship between Vietnamese Catholics, the Vietnamese state, and the non-Catholic majority at the cusp of the colonial era, Ramsay's original and ambitious new work revises significantly how this controversial topic has been conventionally understood.\" -- Peter Zinoman, University of California * Berkeley *\u003cbr\u003e\"Jacob Ramsay presents us here with a well-researched volume making convincing use of Vietnamese and French missionary archives alike to discuss a period that has not yet been throughly investigated in relation to the impact of the French missionary push in Vietnam before the military conquest formally started in 1858 .... Jacob Ramsay's carefully crafted book constitutes a most welcome addition to a growing body of scholarly studies of the influence the \u003ci\u003eSociété des Missions Étrangéres de Paris\u003c\/i\u003e has had on the history of Vietnam.\" -- Jean Michaud * \u003ci\u003eChurch History\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"Lucid and well-balanced, \u003ci\u003eMandarins and Martyrs\u003c\/i\u003e offers a new perspective on Vietnamese Christian communities in the first half of the nineteenth century. This book is a thoughtful and significant contribution to the field of Vietnamese Studies.\" -- George E. Dutton, University of California * Los Angeles *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eMandarins and Martyrs\u003c\/i\u003e deftly weaves a rich history of the interactions between the Nguyen emperors [. . .] on one hand and the Vietnamese Catholic Church and French missionaries on the other . . . Ramsay's book is a magnificent contribution to Vietnamese studies. The fact that it is lucidly and elegantly written, and reasonably short is an excellent model for all doctoral dissertations.\" -- Peter C. Phan * Georgetown University, \u003ci\u003eCatholic Books Review\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[table of contents]  @fmct:Contents  @toc4:Acknowledgments  Maps  @toc2:Introduction  Chapter 1\tRestoration and the Mission  Chapter 2\tThe Rise of Nguyen Anti-Catholicism  \t  Chapter 3\tPersecution  \t\t\t\t  Chapter 4\tMission Revival  Chapter 5\tPriests and Mandarins  Chapter 6\tInvasion  Epilogue  @toc4:Abbreviations  Notes  Bibliography  Index","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405569859927,"sku":"9780804756518","price":49.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780804756518.jpg?v=1730492870","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/mandarins-and-martyrs-9780804756518","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}