| Youth Mobilization in Vichy Indochina and Its Legacies, 1940 to 1970 Contributor(s): Raffin, Anne (Author) |
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ISBN: 0739111469 ISBN-13: 9780739111468 Publisher: Lexington Books OUR PRICE: $120.78 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 2005 Annotation: Youth Mobilization in Vichy Indochina and Its Legacies analyzes the causes and consequences of state-sponsored patriotic youth associations during World War II in French Indochina. Providing an historical account of the transnational policy process of youth mobilization during World War II, this book presents how officials transplanted French doctrines to Indochina with sensitivity toward the varying local political contexts and cultural traditions the French believed they had found there. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Asia - Southeast Asia - Political Science | Political Ideologies - Nationalism & Patriotism - History | Military - World War Ii |
| Dewey: 369.409 |
| LCCN: 2005009786 |
| Series: After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France (Hardcover) |
| Physical Information: 1.08" H x 6.3" W x 9.32" (1.23 lbs) 282 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Southeast Asian - Chronological Period - 1940's - Cultural Region - French - Chronological Period - 1950's - Chronological Period - 1960's |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: To what extent, and precisely how, are nationalism and patriotism transnational processes? Youth Mobilization in Vichy Indochina and Its Legacies analyzes the causes and consequences of state-sponsored patriotic youth associations during World War II in French Indochina. Providing an historical account of the transnational policy process of youth mobilization during World War II, this book describes how officials transplanted French doctrines to Indochina with sensitivity toward the varying local political contexts and cultural traditions the French believed they had found there. Engaging the work of Benedict Anderson on nationalism in the Third World, Raffin details the mechanisms by which a set of French colonial practices and discourses sponsored by the colonial state promoted nationalism among local youth and helped to lead the countries of the former French Indochina toward militaristic regimes. This well-researched volume provides a valuable contribution to a period of Indochinese history that is still little studied, and is important reading for students and scholars of colonial history who seek a long-term historical perspective on empire and post-empire state building. |