Van Nguyen-Marshall Book order

Follow Sigmar’s Prime Huntress, Yndrasta, as she stalks her prey through the treacherous Realm of Ghur.

The book explores various voluntary activities in South Vietnam, such as mutual-help and charitable organizations, to analyze state-society relations during wartime. It sheds light on how ordinary citizens navigated the sociopolitical challenges of postcolonial nation building, national division, civil war, and the pressures of the Cold War. Through this examination, it provides valuable insights into the responses and resilience of South Vietnamese communities amidst tumultuous historical circumstances.

This is a Mortal Realms story with a twist - a virtuous man succumbs to the path of darkness, and wages a war against Sigmar.

In Search of Moral The Discourse on Poverty, Poor Relief, and Charity in French Colonial Vietnam is a pioneering exploration of the discourses on poverty and poor-relief activities in early twentieth-century Northern Vietnam. Treating poverty as a socially constructed idea, Van Nguyen-Marshall argues that poor relief was a domain where both French colonialists and Vietnamese intellectuals vied for moral authority. For the French colonial officials, poor relief fell within the purview of the French «civilizing» mission, the official justification for imperialism. However, the colonial agenda, racial prejudices, and the French administrators’ own ambivalent attitudes toward the poor made any attempt at poor relief doomed for failure. For Vietnamese intellectuals, the discourse and activities on poor relief became a rallying call for patriotism, nationalism, and, for some, anti-colonialism. In Search of Moral Authority deals with social issues such as charity and poor relief, as well as the construction of national and gender identity by Vietnamese intellectuals. This book is essential reading for students and specialists of Vietnamese history as well as those interested in issues of poverty, public welfare, and charity.