Research Catalog

Title

Vietnam : the struggle for national identity / D.R. SarDesai.

Author

SarDesai, D. R.

Publication

Boulder : Westview Press, 1992.

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Description

x, 192 p. : maps; 24 cm.

Subject

• Nationalism > Vietnam > History
• Vietnam > History > 20th century

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 164-177) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. Ethnicity, Geography, and Early History. Vietnam -- The Nomenclature. The Human Fabric and Languages. Early Vietnamese History. Early Nationalism. Map of Vietnam's Ethnic Groups -- 2. A Millennium of Freedom. Mongols Invade Vietnam and Champa. Fall of Champa. Chinese Occupation and the Birth of the Le Dynasty. Vietnam's Partition. The Tayson Rebellion. Unification and Consolidation -- 3. The French Conquest of Vietnam. Vietnam and the French Missionaries. Conquest of Cochin China. De Lagree-Garnier Expedition. Garnier's Tongking Adventure. France Completes the Conquest of Vietnam. Map of Vietnamese Southward Movement -- 4. The Nationalist Movement. Early Resistance to French Rule. Phan Boi Chau and Phan Chau Trinh. Beginnings of the Modern Nationalist Movement. The VNQDD. The Uprisings of 1930-1931. Ho Chi Minh. Birth of the Viet Minh. Establishment of the DRV. The First Indochina War. Dien Bien Phu. The Geneva Settlement of 1954 -- 5. Roots of the Second Indochina War. South Vietnam After the Geneva Conference. Unrest in South Vietnam -- 6. The Indochina Imbroglio. U.S. Disengagement. Cambodia Since Geneva. Cambodia's Neutrality. The Khmer Rouge. The Paris Accords of 1973. Communist Victory in Vietnam and Cambodia. Reasons for the U.S. Failure in Vietnam -- 7. The New Vietnam. Postwar Economic Measures. Five-Year Plans and Economic Policy. Government and Politics in the New Vietnam. Vietnam as a Military Power -- 8. Vietnam's International Relations. Vietnam and Cambodia. Vietnam-China Relations. Vietnam and the Soviet Union. Vietnam's Occupation of Cambodia. Communists Clash in Indochina. The Boat People -- 9. The Cambodia Question and U.S.-Vietnamese Relations. Vietnam's Goals in Cambodia. Preconditions to Normalization of U.S.-Vietnam Relations. The MIA Issue. Efforts Toward Peace in Cambodia.

ISBN

• 0813381967
• 0813381975 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^91045349^

OCLC

• 25009456
• SCSB-10959778

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library