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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 regime 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.
The collection of essays in this volume offers an overview of
scholarly approaches to the ways in which diverse actors,
representing the colonised or the colonising nations, or indeed the
international community, reacted to colonialism during the lifetime
of the modern colonial empires or in their aftermath. The coverage
is broad in terms of geographical scope and historical period, with
articles on the major colonial empires in Asia and Africa and the
imperial centres of Paris, London and Berlin, from the conquests of
the late nineteenth century to the period of decolonisation. The
selection also reflects recent academic trends by focusing on
countries whose colonial past and experience of decolonisation have
been studied and debated with particular intensity, such as
Algeria, Kenya and India. The volume draws on previously published
articles and book chapters by leading international scholars
writing in, or translated into, English and includes a critical
introduction which situates each essay in relation to recent
debates in this dynamic and expanding field of study.
The collection of essays in this volume offers an overview of
scholarly approaches to the ways in which diverse actors,
representing the colonised or the colonising nations, or indeed the
international community, reacted to colonialism during the lifetime
of the modern colonial empires or in their aftermath. The coverage
is broad in terms of geographical scope and historical period, with
articles on the major colonial empires in Asia and Africa and the
imperial centres of Paris, London and Berlin, from the conquests of
the late nineteenth century to the period of decolonisation. The
selection also reflects recent academic trends by focusing on
countries whose colonial past and experience of decolonisation have
been studied and debated with particular intensity, such as
Algeria, Kenya and India. The volume draws on previously published
articles and book chapters by leading international scholars
writing in, or translated into, English and includes a critical
introduction which situates each essay in relation to recent
debates in this dynamic and expanding field of study.
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