The first Vietnam War : violence, sovereignty, and the fracture of the South, 1945-1956 / Shawn F. McHale.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McHale, Shawn Frederick, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indochinese War, 1946-1954.

Vietnam (Republic)--History--Autonomy and independence movements.

Vietnam (Republic).

Physical Description:

1 online resource digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2021.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Cover

Half-title page

Title page

Copyright page

Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

Acknowledgments

List of Abbreviations

Introduction: Sovereignty, Violence, and Institutional Collapse at the Edge of France's Empire

Part I: Fracture, 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

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 20 Aug 2021).

ISBN:

1-108-93617-2

1-108-93639-3

1-108-93600-8

OCLC:

1276857255