Indochina: An Ambiguous Colonization, 1858-1954
An important, well-conceived, and original piece of historical synthesis.—Peter Zinoman, author of The Colonial Bastille: A History of Imprisonment in Vietnam"Indochina is the first and best general history of French colonial Indochina from its inception in 1858 to its crumbling in 1954. It...
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An important, well-conceived, and original piece of historical synthesis.—Peter Zinoman, author of The Colonial Bastille: A History of Imprisonment in Vietnam"Indochina is the first and best general history of French colonial Indochina from its inception in 1858 to its crumbling in 1954. It is the only work to avoid nationalist, colonialist, and anticolonialist historiographies in order to fully explore the ambiguity of the French colonial period. A major contribution to the national histories of France, Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia."—Christopher Goscha, Université du Québec à Montréal
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780520245396 (0520245393)
Publish date: March 5th 2010
Publisher: University of California Press
Pages no: 508
Edition language: English
The authors immediately got my attention by summing up what makes the region fascinating to me: “Although geography does not create history, it does condition it . . . and this was one of the world’s great historical frontiers, along which contacts and exchanges occurred among material cultures, myt...
The authors immediately got my attention by summing up what makes the region fascinating to me: “Although geography does not create history, it does condition it . . . and this was one of the world’s great historical frontiers, along which contacts and exchanges occurred among material cultures, myt...
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