Imagining Vietnam and America : the making of postcolonial Vietnam, 1919-1950 /
Mark Philip Bradley ; foreword by John Lewis Gaddis.
- xiv, 304 pages : maps ; 25 cm.
- The new Cold War history. .
- New Cold War history. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-295) and index.
Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Liberty and the Making of Postcolonial Order -- European Wind, American Rain: The United States in Vietnamese Anticolonial Discourse -- Representing Vietnam: The Interwar American Construction of French Indochina -- Trusteeship and the American Vision of Postcolonial Vietnam -- Self-Evident Truths?: Vietnam, America, and the August Revolution of 1945 -- Improbable Opportunities: Vietnamese and American Diplomacy in the Postcolonial Moment -- Conclusion: Becoming Postcolonial in a Cold War World -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
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