| The Road to War: France and Vietnam 1944-1947 Revised Edition Contributor(s): Shipway, Martin (Author) |
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ISBN: 1571811494 ISBN-13: 9781571811493 Publisher: Berghahn Books OUR PRICE: $33.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2003 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Military - General - History | Europe - France - History | Asia - Southeast Asia |
| Dewey: 959.703 |
| Lexile Measure: 1630 |
| Series: Contemporary France |
| Physical Information: 0.68" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.83 lbs) 324 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - French - Chronological Period - 20th Century - Cultural Region - Southeast Asian - Chronological Period - 1940's |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: How did France become embroiled in Vietnam, in the first of long wars of decolonization? And why did the French colonial administration, in late 1946, having negotiated with Ho Chi Minh for a year, adopt a warlike stance towards Ho's r gime which ran counter to the liberal colonial doctrine of liberated France? Based on French archival sources, almost all of them previously unavailable to the English-speaking reader, the author assesses the policy that emerged from the 1944 Brazzaville conference; and the doomed attempt to apply that policy in Indo-China. |
Contributor Bio(s): Shipway, Martin: - Martin Shipway teaches in the Department of French, Birkbeck College, University of London. |