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Author Lentz, Christian C., author.

Title Contested territory : Điện Biên Phu̓ and the making of northwest Vietnam / Christian C. Lentz.

Publication Info. New Haven : Yale University Press, [2019]
©2019

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 331 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Yale Agrarian studies series
Yale agrarian studies.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents "Vast area, sparse people" -- Vietnam on the march -- Anxious economies -- Điện Biên Phủ and the logistics of territory -- Struggles at Điện Biên Phủ -- Revolutionary alternatives.
Summary 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 Điện Biên Phủ, 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.
Awards Harry J. Benda Prize, 2021
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Subject Vietnam (Democratic Republic) -- Politics and government.
Vietnam (Democratic Republic)
Politics and government.
Vietnam -- Politics and government -- 1945-1975.
Vietnam.
Chronological Term 1945-1975
Subject Vietnam -- History -- 1945-1975.
History.
Điện Biên Phủ (Vietnam) -- History -- 20th century.
Vietnam, Northern -- History -- 20th century.
Northern Vietnam.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Indochinese War, 1946-1954 -- Territorial questions.
Indochinese War (1946-1954)
Dien Bien Phu, Battle of, Điện Biên Phủ, Vietnam, 1954.
Battle of Dien Bien Phu (Điện Biên Phủ, Vietnam : 1954)
Territory, National -- Vietnam -- History -- 20th century.
Jurisdiction, Territorial -- Vietnam -- History -- 20th century.
Jurisdiction, Territorial.
Decolonization -- Vietnam -- History -- 20th century.
Decolonization.
Regionalism -- Vietnam.
Regionalism.
Political geography.
Political geography.
Territory, National.
HISTORY -- Asia -- Southeast Asia.
Vietnam -- Điện Biên Phủ.
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form History.
Added Title Điện Biên Phu̓ and the making of northwest Vietnam
Other Form: Print version: Lentz, Christian C. Contested territory. New Haven : Yale University Press, [2019] 9780300233957 (OCoLC)1053595692
ISBN 9780300245585 (electronic book)
0300245580 (electronic book)
9780300233957 (hardcover)
0300233957 (hardcover)