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Vietnam

A New History

By: Christopher Goscha

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The definitive history of modern Vietnam, lauded as "groundbreaking" (Guardian) and "the best one-volume history of modern Vietnam in English" (Wall Street Journal) and a finalist for the Cundill History Prize In Vietnam, Christopher Goscha tells the full history of Vietnam, from antiquity to the present day. Generations of emperors, rebels, priests, and colonizers left complicated legacies in this remarkable country. Periods of Chinese, French, and Japanese rule reshaped and modernized Vietnam, but so too did the colonial enterprises of the Vietnamese themselves as they extended their influence southward from the Red River Delta. Over the centuries, numerous kingdoms, dynasties, and states have ruled over -- and fought for -- what is now Vietnam. The bloody Cold War-era conflict between Ho Chi Minh's communist-backed Democratic Republic of Vietnam and the American-backed Republic of Vietnam was only the most recent instance when war divided and transformed Vietnam. A major achievement, Vietnam offers the grand narrative of the country's complex past and the creation of the modern state of Vietnam. It is the definitive single-volume history for anyone seeking to understand Vietnam today.

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0465094376

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The Penguin History of Modern Vietnam

By: Christopher Goscha

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The Penguin History of Modern Vietnam

By: Christopher Goscha

WINNER OF THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION'S JOHN K. FAIRBANK PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE CUNDHILL HISTORY PRIZE 2017 'This is the finest single-volume history of Vietnam in English. It challenges myths, and raises questions about the socialist republic's political future' Guardian 'Powerful and compelling. Vietnam will be of growing importance in the twenty-first-century world, particularly as China and the US rethink their roles in Asia. Christopher Goscha's book is a brilliant account of that country's history.' - Rana Mitter 'A vigorous, eye-opening account of a country of great importance to the world, past and future' - Kirkus Reviews Over the centuries the Vietnamese have beenboth colonizers themselves and the victims of colonization by others. Their country expanded, shrunk, split and sometimes disappeared, often under circumstances far beyond their control. Despite these often overwhelming pressures, Vietnam has survived as one of Asia's most striking and complex cultures. 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 layers left by earlier emperors, rebels, priests and colonizers. Christopher Goscha's new work amply fills this role. Drawing on a lifetime of thinking about Indo-China, he has created a narrative which is consistently seen from 'inside' Vietnam but never loses sight of the connections to the 'outside'. As wave after wave of invaders - whether Chinese, French, Japanese or American - have been ultimately expelled, we see the terrible cost to the Vietnamese themselves. 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 modern state can be seen from a truly historical perspective. Christopher Goscha draws on the latest research and discoveries in Vietnamese, French and English. His book is a major achievement, describing both the grand narrative of Vietnam's story but also the byways, curiosities, differences, cultures and peoples that have done so much over the centuries to define the many versions of Vietnam.

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0141946652

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The Road to Dien Bien Phu

A History of the First War for Vietnam

By: Christopher Goscha

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The Road to Dien Bien Phu

A History of the First War for Vietnam

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A multifaceted history of Ho Chi Minh’s climactic victory over French colonial might that foreshadowed America’s experience in Vietnam 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 struggle, a nation forged in the crucible of war had achieved a victory undreamed of by any other national liberation movement. The Road to Dien Bien Phu tells the story of how Ho Chi Minh turned a ragtag guerrilla army into a modern fighting force capable of bringing down the formidable French army. Taking readers from the outbreak of fighting in 1945 to the epic battle at Dien Bien Phu, Christopher Goscha shows how Ho transformed Vietnam from a decentralized guerrilla state based in the countryside to a single-party communist state shaped by a specific form of “War Communism.” Goscha discusses how the Vietnamese operated both states through economics, trade, policing, information gathering, and communications technology. He challenges the wisdom of counterinsurgency methods developed by the French and still used by the Americans today, and explains why the First Indochina War was arguably the most brutal war of decolonization in the twentieth century, killing a million Vietnamese, most of them civilians. Panoramic in scope, The Road to Dien Bien Phu transforms our understanding of this conflict and the one the United States would later enter, and sheds new light on communist warfare and statecraft in East Asia today.

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Princeton University Press

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0691228655

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Vietnam

A New History

By: Christopher Goscha

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A New History

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Forgotten Wars

Freedom and Revolution in Southeast Asia

By: Christopher Alan Bayly,Timothy Norman Harper

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Forgotten Wars

Freedom and Revolution in Southeast Asia

By: Christopher Alan Bayly,Timothy Norman Harper

This is a panoramic account of the bitter wars of the end of empire, seen not only through the eyes of the fighters, but also through the personal stories of ordinary people.

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Harvard University Press

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A History of Thailand

By: Chris Baker,Pasuk Phongpaichit

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A History of Thailand

By: Chris Baker,Pasuk Phongpaichit

A History of Thailand offers a lively and accessible account of Thailand's political, economic, social, and cultural history.

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Cambridge University Press

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1009014838

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The Road to Dien Bien Phu

A History of the First War for Vietnam

By: Christopher Goscha

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A History of the First War for Vietnam

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A History of Thailand

By: Christopher John Baker,Pasuk Phongpaichit

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A History of Thailand

By: Christopher John Baker,Pasuk Phongpaichit

A History of Thailand offers a lively and accessible account of Thailand's political, economic, social and cultural history. This book explores how a world of mandarin nobles and unfree peasants was transformed and examines how the monarchy managed the foundation of a new nation-state at the turn of the twentieth century. The authors capture the clashes between various groups in their attempts to take control of the nation-state in the twentieth century. They track Thailand's economic changes through an economic boom, globalisation and the evolution of mass society. This edition sheds light on Thailand's recent political, social and economic developments, covering the coup of 2006, the violent street politics of May 2010, and the landmark election of 2011 and its aftermath. It shows how in Thailand today, the monarchy, the military, business and new mass movements are players in a complex conflict over the nature and future of the country's democracy.

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1107420210

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Thailand and the Southeast Asian Networks of the Vietnamese Revolution, 1885-1954

By: Christopher E. Goscha

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Thailand and the Southeast Asian Networks of the Vietnamese Revolution, 1885-1954

By: Christopher E. Goscha

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.

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Psychology Press

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0700706224

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Thailand and the Southeast Asian Networks of The Vietnamese Revolution, 1885-1954

By: Christopher E. Goscha

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Thailand and the Southeast Asian Networks of The Vietnamese Revolution, 1885-1954

By: Christopher E. Goscha

Christopher Goscha resituates the Vietnamese revolution and war against the French into its Asian context. 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 the birth of the 'Save the King Movement' in 1885 and the Battle of Dien Bien Phu in 1954. But his study is more than just a political history. Goscha brings geography to bear on his subject with a passion. While he considers the little-known political movements of such well-known faces as Phan Boi Chau and Ho Chi Minh across Southeast Asia, the author takes us into the complex Asian networks stretching from northeastern Thailand and the port of Bangkok to southern China and Hong Kong - and beyond. There, we see how Ho and Chau drew upon an invisible army of Vietnamese and Chinese traders, criminals, prostitutes, sailors and above all the thousands of emigres living in Vietnamese communities in Thailand.

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Book's by Christopher Goscha

Vietnam

Vietnam

The Penguin History of Modern Vietnam

The Penguin History of Modern Vietnam

The Road to Dien Bien Phu

The Road to Dien Bien Phu

Vietnam

Vietnam

The Penguin History of Modern Vietnam

The Penguin History of Modern Vietnam

Forgotten Wars

Forgotten Wars

A History of Thailand

A History of Thailand

The Road to Dien Bien Phu

The Road to Dien Bien Phu

A History of Thailand

A History of Thailand

Thailand and the Southeast Asian Networks of the Vietnamese Revolution, 1885-1954

Thailand and the Southeast Asian Networks of the Vietnamese Revolution, 1885-1954

Thailand and the Southeast Asian Networks of The Vietnamese Revolution, 1885-1954

Thailand and the Southeast Asian Networks of The Vietnamese Revolution, 1885-1954

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