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Contested Territory : Điện Biên Phu̓ and the making of northwest Vietnam
Author
Title
Contested Territory : Điện Biên Phu̓ and the making of northwest Vietnam / Christian C. Lentz.
ISBN
0300245580
9780300245585
0300233957
9780300233957
Publication
New Haven : Yale University Press, [2019]
Copyright Notice Date
©2019
Physical Description
1 online resource (xvi, 331 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Description based on print version record.
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Access restricted by licensing agreement.
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.
Variant and related titles
EBSCOhost eBook collection, Yale University Press.
Other formats
Print version: Lentz, Christian C. Contested Territory. New Haven : Yale University Press, [2019]
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 02, 2019
Series
Yale Agrarian studies series
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.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Electronic books.
History.
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