Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 331 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
Physical Medium |
polychrome |
Description |
text file |
Series |
Yale Agrarian studies series
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Yale agrarian studies.
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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 |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Vietnam (Democratic Republic) -- Politics and government.
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Vietnam (Democratic Republic) |
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Politics and government. |
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Vietnam -- Politics and government -- 1945-1975.
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Vietnam. |
Chronological Term |
1945-1975 |
Subject |
Vietnam -- History -- 1945-1975.
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History. |
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Điện Biên Phủ (Vietnam) -- History -- 20th century.
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Vietnam, Northern -- History -- 20th century.
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Northern Vietnam. |
Chronological Term |
20th century |
Subject |
Indochinese War, 1946-1954 -- Territorial questions.
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Indochinese War (1946-1954) |
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Dien Bien Phu, Battle of, Điện Biên Phủ, Vietnam, 1954.
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Battle of Dien Bien Phu (Điện Biên Phủ, Vietnam : 1954) |
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Territory, National -- Vietnam -- History -- 20th century.
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Jurisdiction, Territorial -- Vietnam -- History -- 20th century.
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Jurisdiction, Territorial. |
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Decolonization -- Vietnam -- History -- 20th century.
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Decolonization. |
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Regionalism -- Vietnam.
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Regionalism. |
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Political geography.
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Political geography. |
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Territory, National. |
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HISTORY -- Asia -- Southeast Asia. |
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Vietnam -- Điện Biên Phủ. |
Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
Genre/Form |
History.
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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) |
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0300245580 (electronic book) |
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9780300233957 (hardcover) |
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0300233957 (hardcover) |
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