First Vietnam War - Violence, Sovereignty, and the Fracture of the South, 1945-1956

List of contents

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.

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: Shawn F. McHale, Shawn F. (George Washington University Mchale
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2021
• EAN: 9781108837446
• ISBN: 978-1-108-83744-6
• No. of pages: 350
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Vietnam, HISTORY / Military / General, 20th Century, military history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / Asia / Southeast Asia, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Asian History, Modern warfare