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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 'Save the King Movement' in 1885 and the Battle of
Dien Bien Phu in 1954. But his study is more than just a political
history. Goscha brings geography to bear on his subject with a
passion. While he considers the little-known political movements of
such well-known faces as Phan Boi Chau and Ho Chi Minh across
Southeast Asia, the author takes us into the complex Asian networks
stretching from northeastern Thailand and the port of Bangkok to
southern China and Hong Kong - and beyond. There, we see how Ho and
Chau drew upon an invisible army of Vietnamese and Chinese traders,
criminals, prostitutes, sailors and above all the thousands of
emigres living in Vietnamese communities in Thailand.
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' straightjacket, Goscha
takes Thailand as his point of departure for exploring how the
Vietnamese revolution was intimately linked to Asia between the
birth of the 'save the king movement' in 1885 and the Battle of
Dien Bien Phu in 1954. Goscha's geo-historical approach to the
Vietnamese war opens up the exciting possibility of wider
comparisons with similar war economies in Indonesia, Algeria, and
post-1954 Vietnam among others.
"Connecting Histories: Decolonization and the Cold War in Southeast
Asia" draws on newly available archival documentation from both
Western and Asian countries to explore decolonization, the Cold
War, and the establishment of a new international order in
post-World War II Southeast Asia.
Major historical forces intersected here--of power, politics,
economics, and culture--on trajectories East to West, North to
South, across the South itself, and along less defined tracks.
Especially important, democratic-communist competitions sought the
loyalties of Southeast Asian nationalists, even as some colonial
powers sought to resume their prewar dominance. These intersections
are the focus of the contributions to this book, which use new
sources and approaches to examine some of the most important
historical trajectories of the twentieth century in Burma, Vietnam,
Malaysia, and a number of other countries.
This first historical dictionary in English of the Indochina War
(1945-54) provides the most comprehensive account to date of one of
the most important conflicts of the twentieth century. Using over
1,600 personally researched and crafted entries, Goscha provides
in-depth, expert coverage of the Indochina War in all its
dimensions. Rather than settling for a strictly politico-military
account of the war, Goscha adopts a path-breaking dual
international and interdisciplinary approach. Thus, readers will
not only find information on politics and military campaigns; they
will also discover the remarkable impact this war had on
intellectual, social, cultural, economic and artistic domains in
France, Indochina and elsewhere. Indeed, rather than limiting the
dictionary to the French and their Vietnamese adversaries, Goscha
explores the internationalization of this conflict from its
beginning in September 1945 at Ba Dinh square in Hanoi to its end
around the Cold War conference table in Geneva in July 1954, also
making it clear that a myriad of non-communist Vietnamese, Lao and
Cambodian nationalists were deeply involved in this war and its
outcome. In addition to its 1,600 entries, the dictionary contains
a succinct historical introduction, selected bibliography, maps,
illustrations, and tables. A massive work of outstanding scholarly
quality and lasting value, this is a reference tool that will be
invaluable for researchers, students and anyone else hoping to
understand the complexity of this tragic conflict.
Why, Benedict Anderson once asked, did Javanese become Indonesian
in 1945 whereas the Vietnamese balked at becoming Indochinese? In
this classic study, Goscha shows that Vietnamese of all political
colours came remarkably close to building a modern national
identity based on the colonial model of Indochina while Lao and
Cambodian nationalists rejected this precisely because it
represented a Vietnamese entity. First published in 1995, the
revised edition of this remarkable study is augmented with new
material by the author and a foreword by Eric Jennings.
This first historical dictionary in English of the Indochina War
provides the most comprehensive account to date of one of the most
important conflicts of the twentieth century. Over 1,600 entries
offer in-depth, expert coverage of the war in all its dimensions.
Christopher Goscha adopts a path-breaking dual international and
interdisciplinary approach. Thus readers will not only find
information on politics and military campaigns; they will also
discover the remarkable impact this war had on intellectual,
social, cultural, economic, and artistic domains in France,
Indochina, and elsewhere. Indeed, rather than limiting the
dictionary to the French and their Vietnamese adversaries, Goscha
explores the internationalization of this conflict from its
beginning in September 1945 at Ba Dinh square in Hanoi to its end
around the Cold War conference table in Geneva in July 1954, also
making it clear that a myriad of non-communist Vietnamese, Lao, and
Cambodian nationalists were deeply involved in this war and its
outcome. In addition to its 1,600 entries, the dictionary contains
a succinct historical introduction, selected bibliography, maps,
illustrations, and tables. A massive work of outstanding scholarly
quality and lasting value, this is a reference tool that will be
invaluable for researchers, students, and anyone else hoping to
understand the complexity of this tragic conflict.
This first historical dictionary in English of the Indochina War
provides the most comprehensive account to date of one of the most
important conflicts of the twentieth century. Over 1,600 entries
offer in-depth, expert coverage of the war in all its dimensions.
Christopher Goscha adopts a path-breaking dual international and
interdisciplinary approach. Thus readers will not only find
information on politics and military campaigns; they will also
discover the remarkable impact this war had on intellectual,
social, cultural, economic, and artistic domains in France,
Indochina, and elsewhere. Indeed, rather than limiting the
dictionary to the French and their Vietnamese adversaries, Goscha
explores the internationalization of this conflict from its
beginning in September 1945 at Ba Dinh square in Hanoi to its end
around the Cold War conference table in Geneva in July 1954, also
making it clear that a myriad of non-communist Vietnamese, Lao, and
Cambodian nationalists were deeply involved in this war and its
outcome. In addition to its 1,600 entries, the dictionary contains
a succinct historical introduction, selected bibliography, maps,
illustrations, and tables. A massive work of outstanding scholarly
quality and lasting value, this is a reference tool that will be
invaluable for researchers, students, and anyone else hoping to
understand the complexity of this tragic conflict.
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