Imagining Vietnam and America - The Making of Postcolonial Vietnam, 1919-1950 (Paperback, New edition)

This study of the encounter between Vietnam and the United States from 1919 to 1950 reconceptualizes the origins of the Cold War in Vietnam and the place of postcolonial Vietnam in the history of the 20th century. Among the first Americans granted a visa to undertake research in Vietnam since the war, Bradley draws on newly available Vietnamese-language primary sources and interviews as well as archival materials from France, Great Britain and the United States. Bradley uses these sources to reveal an imagined America that occupied a central place in Vietnamese political discourse, symbolizing the qualities that revolutionaries believed were critical for reshaping their society. American policymakers, he argues, articulated their own imagined Vietnam, a deprecating vision informed by the conviction that the country should be remade in America's image. Contrary to other historians who focus on the Soviet-American rivalry and ignore the policies and perceptions of Vietnamese actors, Bradley contends that the global discourse and practices of colonialism, race, modernism and postcolonial state-making were profoundly implicated in - and ultimately transcended - the dynamics of the Cold War in shaping Vietnamese-American relations.

General

Imprint:	The University of North Carolina Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	The New Cold War History
Release date:	September 2000
First published:	September 2000
Authors:	Mark Philip Bradley
Dimensions:	235 x 156 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	344
Edition:	New edition
ISBN-13:	978-0-8078-4861-6
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history > General Books > Humanities > History > American history > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > International relations > General Books > Humanities > History > World history > From 1900 > General Books > History > American history > General Books > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history > General Books > History > World history > From 1900 > General Promotions
LSN:	0-8078-4861-1
Barcode:	9780807848616

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