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Zusatztext Kiernan offers a comprehensive overview of Vietnamese history from prehistoric times to the 21st century ... A distinctive quality of this work is its inclusion of environmental and linguistic history. The author effectively explains how geography and changing weather patterns (droughts, etc.) impacted historical development and demonstrates how changes in language over time provides information about Vietnam's past ... Essential for all students of Vietnamese history. Extensive descriptions of Vietnam's relations with its neighbors also make this valuable reading for those interested in Chinese or Southeast Asian history. Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 ...
