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

In the Servitude of Power: Energy and Civilization Through the Ages

This stimulating, informative and at times frightening book provides an overall history of energy usage as a fundamental factor in the evolution of the world's major civilizations, from pre-history to the present day. It serves as a history of human impact on the biosphere and the consequences of this for the rise and fall of civilizations. The authors look in detail at how different forms of energy use have shaped society in the earliest civilizations - Egypt, Mesopotamia and India - as well as in Ancient Greece and Rome, Imperial China, Medieval Europe, and during the industrial revolution. They go on to cover the rise of the internal combustion engine, electrification, oil, nuclear power, and contemporary ecological problems. They show how all societies are dependent on fragile and unstable energy systems that combine particular technical knowledge, conceptions of nature, and relations of power. When this system reaches its limits, a major crisis is inevitable. Our own world is entering such a crisis as we exhaust our non-renewable resources and confront the consequences of global warming. And the Third World and Eastern Europe face even worse dilemmas. As for nuclear energy, the authors show it to be an economically unviable attempt to shore up an outworn system. They ask whether there is any technical way of overcoming these limits other than an overall change in the way our society functions. In the Servitude of Poweris an authoritative and comprehensive guide to what promises to be the end of an era.

Deléage, Jean-Paul

Debeir, Jean-Claude

Zed Books

This stimulating, informative and at times frightening book provides an overall history of energy usage as a fundamental factor in the evolution of the worlds major civilizations, from pre-history to the present day. It serves as a history of human impact on the biosphere and the consequences of this for the rise and fall of civilizations. The authors look in detail at how different forms of energy use have shaped society in the earliest civilizations Egypt, Mesopotamia and India as well as in Ancient Greece and Rome, Imperial China, Medieval Europe, and during the industrial revolution. They go on to cover the rise of the internal combustion engine, electrification, oil, nuclear power, and contemporary ecological problems. They show how all societies are dependent on fragile and unstable energy systems that combine particular technical knowledge, conceptions of nature, and relations of power. When this system reaches its limits, a major crisis is inevitable. Our own world is entering such a crisis as we exhaust our non-renewable resources and confront the consequences of global warming. And the Third World and Eastern Europe face even worse dilemmas. As for nuclear energy, the authors show it to be an economically unviable attempt to shore up an outworn system. They ask whether there is any technical way of overcoming these limits other than an overall change in the way our society functions. In the Servitude of Poweris an authoritative and comprehensive guide to what promises to be the end of an era.

Ho Chi Minh: De l'Indochine au Vietnam

Reference

Gallimard]

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

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