| Series |
Yale agrarian studies series
Yale agrarian studies. ^A303919
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| Contents |
Acknowledgements -- A note on Vietnamese language and sources -- Introduction: A world-historical place -- 1. "Vast area, sparse people" -- 2. Vietnam on the march -- 3. Anxious economies -- Điện Biên Phu̓ and the logistics of territory -- 5. Struggles at Điện Biên Phu̓ -- 6. Revolutionary alternatives -- Epilogue: Recounting Điện Biên Phu̓ -- List of abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. |
| Abstract |
"The definitive account of one of the most important battles of the twentieth century, and the Black River borderlands' transformation into Northwest Vietnam This new work of historical and political geography ventures beyond the conventional framing of the Battle of Dien Bien Phu, the 1954 conflict that toppled the French empire in Indochina. Tracking a longer period of anticolonial revolution and nation-state formation from 1945 to 1960, Christian Lentz argues that a Vietnamese elite constructed territory as a strategic form of rule. Engaging newly available archival sources, Lentz offers a novel conception of territory as a contingent outcome of spatial contests."-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-305) and index. |
| Genre/form | History. |
| ISBN | 9780300233957 hardcover |
| ISBN | 0300233957 hardcover |
