Combining new approaches with a groundbreaking historical synthesis, this accessible work is the most thorough and up-to-date general history of French Indochina available in English. Unique in its wide-ranging attention to economic, social, intellectual, and cultural dimensions, it is the first book to treat Indochina's entire history from its inception in Cochinchina in 1858 to its crumbling at Dien Bien Ph in 1954 and on to decolonization. Basing their account on original research as well as on the most recent scholarship, Pierre Brocheux and Daniel Hémery tell this story from a perspective that is neither Eurocentric nor nationalistic but that carefully considers the positions of both the colonizers and the colonized. With this approach, they are able to move beyond descriptive history into a rich exploration of the ambiguities and complexities of the French colonial period in Indochina. Rich in themes and ideas, their account also sheds new light on the national histories of the emerging nation-states of Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia, making this book essential reading for students, scholars, and general readers interested in the region, in the Vietnam War, or in French imperialism, among other topics. Caption translations provided in part by Nina Fink.

Indochina: An Ambiguous Colonization, 1858-1954

History

Hémery, Daniel

BROCHEUX, Pierre

Asia

University of California Press

Combining new approaches with a groundbreaking historical synthesis, this accessible work is the most thorough and up-to-date general history of French Indochina available in English. Unique in its wide-ranging attention to economic, social, intellectual, and cultural dimensions, it is the first book to treat Indochina's entire history from its inception in Cochinchina in 1858 to its crumbling at Dien Bien Ph in 1954 and on to decolonization. Basing their account on original research as well as on the most recent scholarship, Pierre Brocheux and Daniel Hémery tell this story from a perspective that is neither Eurocentric nor nationalistic but that carefully considers the positions of both the colonizers and the colonized. With this approach, they are able to move beyond descriptive history into a rich exploration of the ambiguities and complexities of the French colonial period in Indochina. Rich in themes and ideas, their account also sheds new light on the national histories of the emerging nation-states of Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia, making this book essential reading for students, scholars, and general readers interested in the region, in the Vietnam War, or in French imperialism, among other topics. Caption translations provided in part by Nina Fink.

Indochina: An Ambiguous Colonization, 1858-1954 (Volume 2)

Jennings, Eric T.

Dill-Klein, Ly Lan

Ho Chi Minh is one of the towering figures of the twentieth century, considered an icon and father of the nation by many Vietnamese. Pierre Brocheux's biography of Ho Chi Minh is a brilliant feat of historical engineering. In a concise and highly readable account, he negotiates the many twists and turns of Ho Chi Minh's life and his multiple identities, from impoverished beginnings as a communist revolutionary to his founding of the Indochina Communist Party and the League for the Independence of Vietnam, and ultimately to his leadership of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam and his death in 1969. Biographical events are adroitly placed within the broader historical canvas of colonization, decolonization, communism, war, and nation building. Brocheux's vivid and convincing portrait of Ho Chi Minh goes further than any previous biography in explaining both the myth and the man, as well as the times in which he was situated.

Ho Chi Minh: A Biography

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Cambridge University Press

Mining a wealth of archival sources in France and Vietnam, Pierre Brocheux constructs a fascinating picture of how French capital and technology transformed the Mekong Delta. By draining the swamps and encouraging a particular pattern of Vietnamese settlement, the French cultivated a volatile society, bound together by lines of credit and poised at the brink of social revolution. From the cutting of the first canals in the 1880s to the eruption of the Viet Cong’s insurgency in the 1950s, this book illuminates the subtle interactions between ecology and social change in a tropical delta. The Mekong Delta is valuable for students of the Vietnamese Revolution and for scholars of peasant movements around the globe. It fills a major gap in our knowledge of the social change that swept the great deltas of Southeast Asia.

The Mekong Delta: Ecology, Economy, and Revolution, 1860-1960 (Wisconsin Monograph 12)

Business & Money

International

Center for Southeast Asian Studies 1

Dans le devenir des sociétés de la péninsule indochinoise, la colonisation française, en dépit de sa relative brièveté temporelle, a représenté un moment d'histoire crucial. Composante fondamentale du système colonial français, l'Indochine a été la matrice du Viet-nam, du Cambodge et du Laos contemporains. C'est l'un des lieux où, après 1945, s'est déterminée la décolonisation, avant qu'il ne devienne l'objet du principal conflit militaire de la guerre froide et de l'opposition entre le tiers monde et l'Occident. À partir des archives, des ouvrages et des travaux anciens ou récents, ce livre rend compte des ambiguïtés du conflit et du contact entre colonisateurs et colonisés. Il inter-roge le processus de mise en dépendance de la péninsule par la France, les structures et le fonctionnement du pouvoir et de l'exploitation économique, les clivages de la société coloniale et des sociétés colonisées, les dynamismes inégaux des résistances à la colonisation française, des nationalismes et des mouvements sociaux dans l'ensemble indochinois. Enfin, il fait le point sur la décolonisation et la première guerre d'Indochine. Cet ouvrage sans équivalent, entièrement actualisé depuis sa première publication en 1994, présente l'état actuel des connaissances et du questionnement historique sur une aire de civilisation dont on n'a pas fini de mesurer l'importance dans le destin du monde.

Indochine, la colonisation ambiguë (1858-1954)

Military

LA DECOUVERTE

Cet ouvrage analyse les images de la légende et du culte d’Ho Chi Minh ainsi que les regards croisés de ses partisans, de ses adversaires et des historiens. Huit thèmes sont ensuite développés, permettant de dévoiler l'unité et la cohérence de la personnalité d’Ho Chi Minh, entre patriotisme, culture sino-vietnamienne et influences de l'Occident.\nFrom the Back Cover\nCet ouvrage analyse les images de la légende et du culte d’Ho Chi Minh ainsi que les regards croisés de ses partisans, de ses adversaires et des historiens. Huit thèmes sont ensuite développés, permettant de dévoiler l'unité et la cohérence de la personnalité d’Ho Chi Minh, entre patriotisme, culture sino-vietnamienne et influences de l'Occident.

Ho Chi Minh

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