1st Edition
Thailand and the Southeast Asian Networks of The Vietnamese Revolution, 1885-1954
By Christopher E. Goscha
Copyright 1999
436 Pages
by
Routledge
434 Pages
by
Routledge
434 Pages
by
Routledge
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Christopher Goscha resituates the Vietnamese revolution and war against the French into its Asian context. Breaking with nationalist and colonial historiographies which have largely locked Vietnam into 'Indochinese' or 'Nation-state' straightjackets, Goscha takes Thailand as his point of departure for exploring how the Vietnamese revolution was intimately linked to Asia between the birth of the... Read more
Figures, Maps, Acknowledgements, A Note on Terms, Abbreviations, Introduction, The Birth of Vietnamese Anticolonial Bases in Asia (1885-1925), 2 The Regional Networks of Vietnamese Communism (1925-1939), 3 Thai Break (1940-45), 4 Building Indochinese Links to Thailand (1945-46), 5 The Southeast Asian Commercial Networks of the D RV (1946-51), 6 The DRV's Non-Communist Vision of Southeast Asia (1945-48), 7 Reviving the ICP's Southeast Asian Revolutionary Networks (1948-50), 8 The Cold War and the Closing of the Western Front (1950-54), Conclusion, Biographical Sketches of Major Figures, References, Index
Biography
Christopher E. Goscha
'A path-breaking contribution to our understanding of an important new perspective in South East Asian history, undertaken by a scholar with an authoritative grasp of the relevant source materials.' - Ralph Smith, South East Asia Research
