David George Marr (born September 22, 1937) is an American/Australian historian specializing in the modern
history of Vietnam
The history of Vietnam can be traced back to around 20,000 years ago, as the first modern humans arrived and settled on this land, known as the Hoabinhians, which can be traced to modern-day Negritos. Archaeological findings from 1965, which are ...
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Marr was born in
Macon, Georgia, the son of Henry George (an auditor) and Louise M. (a teacher; maiden name Brown). Marr studied at
Dartmouth College
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(BA), before joining the
US Marine Corps
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as an intelligence officer. Marr learned Vietnamese in the US, then was assigned to Vietnam in 1962.
"''Kirkus Reviews'' on Marr's ''Vietnam 1945''".
/ref> He married there in April 1963, and was reassigned to marine Intelligence in Hawaii a month later. After leaving the Marines in 1964 he sought to understand the roots of Vietnamese patriotism as a graduate student at UC Berkeley (PhD 1968). He taught at University of California, Berkeley
The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...
and as assistant professor at Cornell University
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, 1969–72, while becoming increasingly engaged in documenting the case for withdrawing from Viet Nam, notably as co-director of the Indochina Resource Center (Washington and Berkeley), 1971-5. In 1975 he moved to Australia with his family, in research positions as Fellow, Senior Fellow and finally Professor at the Australian National University's Research School of Pacific Studies, in Canberra. He has also been editor of ''Vietnam Today''. He is currently Emeritus Professor and Visiting Fellow, School of Culture, History & Language at the College of Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University
The Australian National University (ANU) is a public research university located in Canberra, the capital of Australia. Its main campus in Acton encompasses seven teaching and research colleges, in addition to several national academies an ...
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Publications
* ''Vietnamese Anticolonialism 1885–1925'', University of California Press, 1971
* ''Vietnamese Tradition on Trial, 1920–1945'', University of California Press, 1981.
* ''Vietnam 1945: The Quest for Power'', University of California Press, 1995.
* ''Vietnam: State, War, and Revolution (1945–1946)'', University of California Press, 2013.
* ''Perceptions of the Past in Southeast Asia'', co-edited along with Anthony Reid, Heinemann, 1979.
* ''Vietnam''. World Bibliographical Series, vol.147, Clio Press, 1992.
References
* David G. Marr (2007). "A Life with Vietnam", in Nicholas Tarling (ed.), ''Historians and Their Discipline: the Call of Southeast Asian History''. Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society.
Further reading
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External links
"Prof. David G. Marr"
– Australian National University (College of Asia and the Pacific).
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21st-century American historians
21st-century American male writers
Historians of the Vietnam War
Living people
1937 births
Cornell University faculty
American male non-fiction writers