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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: first Vietnam war
    sub title: violence, sovereignty, and the fracture of the south, 1945-1956
  name:
    name part: McHale, Shawn F.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2021
    copyright date: 2021
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xi, 304 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
  abstract: Shawn McHale explores why the communist-led resistance in Vietnam won the anticolonial war against France (1945-54), except in the south. He shows how broad swaths of Vietnamese people were uneasily united in 1945 under the Viet Minh Resistance banner, all opposing the French attempt to reclaim control of the country. By 1947, resistance unity had shattered and Khmer-Vietnamese ethnic violence had divided the Mekong delta. From this point on, the war in the south turned into an overt civil war wrapped up in a war against France. Based on extensive archival research in four countries and in three languages, this is the first substantive English-language book focused on southern Vietnam's transition from colonialism to independence.
  table of contents: Introduction: sovereignty, violence, and institutional collapse at the edge of France's empire -- Part I: France, 1945-1947 : 1. A plural Mekong delta under stress -- 2. The Southern General Uprising -- 3. Priming upheavals in the Mekong delta -- 4. The double fracture of the Mekong delta -- Part II: Disassemblage/reassemblage, 1947-1953 : 5. Empire, racial survival, and race hatred -- 6. Contesting state and sovereignty -- 7. Forced migrations and suffering -- 8. French pacification meets the Vietnamese resistance -- 9. Alternative trajectories: seeing like parastates, militias, and strongmen -- Part III: Endgame, 1953-1956 : 10. The twilight of empire and the strange birth of South Vietnam.
  note: Shawn F. McHale.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-299) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: a-vt---
  subject:
    topic: Indochinese War, 1946-1954
  subject:
    geographic: Vietnam (Republic)
    topic: History
    topic: Autonomy and independence movements
  classification: DS553.1 .M34 2021
  classification: 959.7041
  identifier: 1108837441
  identifier: 9781108837446
  identifier: 9781108936392 (PDF ebook)
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 210304
    record change date: 20220105160629.0
    record identifier: in00004371794