TY - BOOK AU - Waite,James TI - The end of the First Indochina War: a global history T2 - Routledge studies on history and globalization SN - 0415886848 AV - DS553.6 .W35 2012 U1 - 959.70412 23 PY - 2012/// CY - New York PB - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group KW - Geneva Conference KW - (1954) KW - Indochinese War, 1946-1954 KW - Peace KW - Diplomatic history KW - World politics KW - 1945-1955 N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Escalation and negotiation, March 1953-May 1954 -- "More important than Korea": background to negotiation -- Defeat in Vietnam? The Battle for Dien Bien Phu -- The Vietnamese confront the Cold War -- Before Geneva: the foundations of western disunity -- In search of a "lesser evil": partition as an idea -- United action averted -- The Geneva Conference on Indochina, May-July 1954 -- The Geneva Conference: the Bidault Phase -- Gouverner, c'est choisir -- The Geneva Conference: the Mend's-France Phase -- The global legacy, July 1954-July 1956 -- Making partition permanent -- Global implications -- Epilogue: "Our offspring." ER -