The road to war : France and Vietnam, 1944-1947 / Martin Shipway.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shipway, Martin, author.

Series:

Contemporary France (Providence, R.I.) ; volume 2.

Contemporary France ; volume 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indochina--History--1945-.

Indochina.

France--Colonies.

France.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (320 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn Books, 2003.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

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 régime 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.

Contents:

part I. The external and domestic parameters of colonial policy making

part II. Policy making in Indochina and its breakdown, 1945-1947.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed March 26, 2014).

ISBN:

1-80758-307-4

0-85745-682-2

OCLC:

871320561