Shawn F. McHale (Washington DC George Washington University)

The First Vietnam War

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this ambitious new analysis of the first Indochina War, Shawn McHale explores why the communist-led Resistance in Vietnam won the anticolonial war against France, except in the South. Based on extensive archival research, this is the first definitive account in English exploring southern Vietnam's transition from colonialism to independence.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 316
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. März 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 458g
• ISBN-13: 9781108941075
• ISBN-10: 1108941079
• Artikelnr.: 66871580

Autorenporträt

Shawn McHale is Associate Professor of History and International Affairs, George Washington University. His first book, Print and Power: Confucianism, Communism, and Buddhism in the Making of Modern Vietnam (University of Hawaii Press, 2004), was a finalist for the Benda Prize in Southeast Asian Studies.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Sovereignty, Violence, and Institutional Collapse at the Edge of France's Empire
Part I. Fracture, 1945-1947: 1. A Plural Mekong Delta under Stress
2. The Southern General Uprising
3. Priming Upheavals in the Mekong Delta
4. The Double Fracture of The Mekong Delta
Part II. Disassemblage/Reassemblage, 1947-1953: 5. Empire, Racial Survival, and Race Hatred
6. Contesting State and Sovereignty
7. Forced Migrations and Suffering
8. French Pacification Meets the Vietnamese Resistance
9. Alternative Trajectories: Seeing Like Parastates, Militias, And Strongmen
Part III. Endgame, 1953-1956: 10. The Twilight of Empire and the Strange Birth of South Vietnam.