| Description |
1 online resource (xix, 323 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Asia/Pacific/perspectives
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Asia/Pacific/perspectives.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The agrarian setting -- Anti-colonial resistance -- The rice rebellions of 1930-31 -- The popular front years (1936-39) -- Vichy and the Japanese occupation (1940-45) -- Allied power plays -- The August revolution of 1945 and its defense -- The Great Vietnam Famine (1944-45) -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index. |
| Summary |
This book offers the first detailed English-language examination of the Great Vietnamese Famine of 1945, which left at least a million dead, and links it persuasively to the largely unexpected Viet Minh seizure of power only months later. Drawing on extensive research in French archives, Geoffrey C. Gunn offers an important new interpretation of Japanese-Vichy French wartime economic exploitation of Vietnam's agricultural potential. Gunn asks whether the famine signaled a loss of the French administration's "mandate of heaven," or whether the overall dire human condition was the determining fa. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Vietminh. |
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Vietnam -- History -- 20th century.
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Vietnam. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Vietnam -- Economic conditions -- 20th century.
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Economic conditions. |
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Famines -- Vietnam.
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Famines. |
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Vietnam -- Colonization.
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Colonization. |
| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Gunn, Geoffrey C. Rice wars in colonial Vietnam 9781442223028 (DLC) 2013040484 (OCoLC)860825755 |
| ISBN |
9781442223035 (electronic book) |
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1442223030 (electronic book) |
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9781442223028 |
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1442223022 |
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