Ben Kiernan

Viet Nam

A History from Earliest Times to the Present

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This comprehensive work traces Viet Nam's history, a narrative of a multi-ethnic, multi-religious heritage, from ancient chiefdoms to imperial provinces, from independent kingdoms to contending regions, civil wars, French colonies, and modern republics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 656
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. März 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 243mm x 164mm x 48mm
• Gewicht: 1039g
• ISBN-13: 9780195160765
• ISBN-10: 0195160762
• Artikelnr.: 47376676

Autorenporträt

Ben Kiernan is the author of The Pol Pot Regime, Genocide and Democracy in Cambodia, and Blood and Soil: A World History of Genocide and Extermination from Sparta to Darfur.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* Part 1 Chiefdoms
* Chapter 1 Water, Rice, and Bronze: Viet Nam in Prehistory
* Part 2 Provinces
* Chapter 2 Calming the Waves: Chinese Conquest and Indigenization, 221
BCE-540 CE
* Chapter 3 Mountains and Rivers of the South: Annam and its Neighbors,
6th to 10th Centuries
* Part 3 Kingdoms
* Chapter 4 "Rice from the Sky:" Assembling the Spirits of Dai Viet,
940-1340
* Chapter 5 Smooth Flowing Waters of Government: The Triumph of
Confucianism, 1340-1570
* Part 3 Regions
* Chapter 6 Contending Shogunates: Inner and Outer Regions, 1570-1770
* Chapter 7 Alternative Unifications: Rebellion and Restoration,
1771-1859
* Part 4 Colonies
* Chapter 8 "World Trends" and French Conquest, 1860-1920
* Chapter 9 Writing and Revolution from Colonialism to Independence,
1920-1954
* Part 5 Republics
* Chapter 10 The American-Vietnamese War, 1954-1975
* Chapter 11 The Making of Contemporary Viet Nam, 1975-2015
* Notes
* Bibliography