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A multifaceted history of Ho Chi Minh‿s climactic victory over French colonial might that foreshadowed America‿s experience in VietnamOn May 7, 1954, when the bullets stopped and the air stilled in Dien Bien Phu, there was no doubt that Vietnam could fight a mighty colonial power and win. After nearly a decade of struggle, a nation forged in the crucible of war had achieved a victory undreamed of by any other national liberation movement. ...

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On May 7, 1954, when the bullets stopped and the air stilled in Dien Bien Phu, there was no doubt that Vietnam could fight a mighty colonial power-and win. After nearly a decade of war, the country that had been forged in the crucible of the Indochina War had achieved a victory unseen in any other movement for national liberation. In The Road to Dien Bien Phu, historian Christopher Goscha explains the making of this extraordinary battle, telli...

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Resituating the Vietnamese revolution and war against the French into its Asian context, this work starts with Thailand for exploring how the Vietnamese revolution was linked to Asia between the birth of the "Save the King Movement" in 1885 and the Battle of Dien Bien Phu in 1954.

Goscha tells the full history of modern Vietnam and its diverse and divided past from antiquity to the present day. It is the definitive history for anyone seeking to understand Vietnam today.

Goscha tells the full history of modern Vietnam and its diverse and divided past from antiquity to the present day. It is the definitive history for anyone seeking to understand Vietnam today.

HISTORY / Asia / General

Christopher Goscha is professor of history at the University of Quebec at Montreal. He has spent much of his adult life studying the people, politics and history of Southeast Asia, particularly Thailand, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam. He studied at Georgetown University and the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (IV¿ Section, La Sorbonne). He has written extensively about many of the different regions of Indo-China.

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Why in 1945 did Javanese become Indonesian whereas the Vietnamese balked at becoming Indochinese? In a classic study whose innovative concept of space has wide applicability, Goscha shows the Vietnamese came remarkably close to building an Indochinese identity but Lao and Cambodian nationalists rejected this precisely because of its Vietnamese hue.

While the birth of any nation is always more complicated than official historiographies purport, the complex positioning of Laos at the crossroads of a wide range of historical, geographical and cultural currents makes this particularly true. It is well known that Laos' emergence as a modern nation-state in the 20th century owed much to a complex interplay of internal and external forces. This book argues that the historiography of Laos needs ...

As more and more visitors come to this extraordinary country, there has been for some years a need for a major history - a book which allows the outsider to understand the many complex layers left by earlier emperors, rebels, priests and colonizers. Vietnam's role in one of the Cold War's longest conflicts has meant that its past has been endlessly abused for propaganda purposes and it is perhaps only now that the events which created the mode...

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Breaking with nationalist and colonial historiographies, which have largely locked Vietnam into Indochinese or nation-state straightjackets, Goscha takes Thailand as his point of departure for exploring how the Vietnamese revolution was intimately linked to Asia between 1885 and 1954.

Christopher E. Goscha is Associate Professor of History at the University of Qu¿c at Montreal. Christian Ostermann directs the Woodrow Wilson Center's History and Public Policy Program. Contributors come from Canada, France, Malaysia, Russia, the Philippines, Singapore, the U.S., and the U.K.