Center for Khmer Studies Library

The Indochinese experience of the French and the Americans nationalism and communism in Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam Arthur J. Dommen.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Bloomington Indiana University Press 2001.Description: xiii, 1172 pages 25 cmISBN:
  • 0253338549 (cl : alk. paper
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 325​.344059 DOM
Contents:
1. The Arrival of the French (1625-1893 2. Dealing with the French (1893-August 30, 1945 3. The Rise of Nationalist Feeling and the Suppression of the Nationalists (August 30, 1945-December 1946 4. The Growth of Foreign Intervention (December 19, 1946-July 20, 1954 5. The Crucible of Nationalism (July 20, 1954-1957 6. The Decline of the Nationalists (1958-1960 7. The Nationalists Struggle against Great Odds (1961-1963 8. Americanization of the War (1964-1968 9. The End of the Non-Communist Nationalists (1969-1973 10. The Party Center Triumphant (1973-2000).
Summary: "Since the United States "discovered" Vietnam in the 1960s and subsequently left that tortured land in defeat, hundreds of books and films and plays have been written or produced as we struggle to come to some understanding of what we did and who we fought. Only now, in the new millennium, are we beginning to approach some sort of closure." "This study by Arthur J. Dommen sets the Indochina wars - French and American - in perspective as no book that has come before. He summarizes the history of the peninsula from the Vietnamese War of Independence from China from 930 to 939 through the first French military actions in 1858, when the struggle of the peoples of Indochina with Western powers began." "This is a book for anyone who wants to understand the complex political history of Indochina and the people who fought against the United States and won."--BOOK JACKET.

10. The Party Center Triumphant (1973-2000).

1. The Arrival of the French (1625-1893 2. Dealing with the French (1893-August 30, 1945 3. The Rise of Nationalist Feeling and the Suppression of the Nationalists (August 30, 1945-December 1946 4. The Growth of Foreign Intervention (December 19, 1946-July 20, 1954 5. The Crucible of Nationalism (July 20, 1954-1957 6. The Decline of the Nationalists (1958-1960 7. The Nationalists Struggle against Great Odds (1961-1963 8. Americanization of the War (1964-1968 9. The End of the Non-Communist Nationalists (1969-1973 10. The Party Center Triumphant (1973-2000).

"Since the United States "discovered" Vietnam in the 1960s and subsequently left that tortured land in defeat, hundreds of books and films and plays have been written or produced as we struggle to come to some understanding of what we did and who we fought. Only now, in the new millennium, are we beginning to approach some sort of closure." "This study by Arthur J. Dommen sets the Indochina wars - French and American - in perspective as no book that has come before. He summarizes the history of the peninsula from the Vietnamese War of Independence from China from 930 to 939 through the first French military actions in 1858, when the struggle of the peoples of Indochina with Western powers began." "This is a book for anyone who wants to understand the complex political history of Indochina and the people who fought against the United States and won."--BOOK JACKET.

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