Indochina : An Ambiguous Colonization, 1858-1954 /
Combining new approaches with a groundbreaking historical synthesis, this is the most thorough and up-to-date general history of French Indochina available in English. Unique in its wide-ranging attention to economic, social, intellectual, and cultural dimensions, it is the first book to treat Indoc...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
2011, c2009.
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| Edition: | 1st pbk. ed. |
| Series: | From Indochina to Vietnam: revolution and war in a global perspective ;
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| Summary: | Combining new approaches with a groundbreaking historical synthesis, this is the most thorough and up-to-date general history of French Indochina available in English. Unique in its wide-ranging attention to economic, social, intellectual, and cultural dimensions, it is the first book to treat Indochina's entire history, from its inception to Cochinchina in 1858 to its crumbling at Dien Bien Phu in 1954 and on to decolonization. The authors tell this story from a perspective that is neither Eurocentric nor nationalistic but that carefully considers the positions of both the colonizers and the colonized. With this approach, they are able to move beyond descriptive history into rich exploration of the ambiguities and complexities of the French colonial period in Indochina.-- Back cover |
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| Item Description: | Translated from the French. "This English-language translation includes additions and updates to the second French edition." -- T.p. verso. |
| Physical Description: | xv, 490 p. : ill., maps, charts ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 447-466) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780520269743 (pbk.) 0520269748 (pbk.) |
