Arthur J. Dommen

Arthur J. Dommen (born 1934 in Mexico City , † December 15, 2005 in Washington, DC ) was an American journalist and agricultural economist of Mexican origin. He was best known as the author of works on Indochina and the Vietnam War .

Life

Dommen was born in Mexico in 1934, immigrated to the United States in 1940, and was naturalized there in 1958 . After graduating from Cornell University , he served two years in the US Army . Dommen then worked for the United Press International news agency as an office manager in Saigon and Hong Kong , before moving to the Los Angeles Times in 1965 , for which he worked in Tokyo and New Delhi . From 1968 to 1971 he devoted himself to the Vietnam War as a war correspondent .

Shortly thereafter, Dommen retired from his journalistic career to obtain a doctorate in agricultural economics from the University of Maryland . He subsequently worked for the US Department of Agriculture , where he mainly dealt with agriculture in developing countries.

In 1996 Arthur Dommen retired, which he used to create the work "The Indochinese Experience of the French and the Americans: Nationalism and Communism in Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam" . In late 2005, he died of cancer at Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington, aged 71 .

Dommen was married to his wife Loan for 28 years; he leaves 2 step sons.

Works

• 1964: Conflict in Laos: The Politics of Neutralization (1971 revised new edition)
• 1977: Iberian antecedents of the classical hacienda of Latin America
• 1985: Laos: Keystone of Indochina
• 1988: Innovation in African agriculture
• 1994: Land tenure and agricultural production in sub-Saharan Africa: a market-oriented approach to analyzing their interactions
• 2001: The Indochinese Experience of the French and the Americans: Nationalism and Communism in Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam

Web links

• Los Angeles Times : Arthur J. Dommen, 71; Correspondent, Author Covered Vietnam for The Times (obituary)
• Overview of works in the Library of Congress