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1 online resource (301 pages) |
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Routledge Studies on History and Globalization |
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Routledge studies on history and globalization.
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""Front Cover ""; ""The End of the First Indochina War""; ""Copyright Page ""; ""Contents ""; ""Acknowledgments ""; ""Introduction ""; ""Part I: Escalation and Negotiation, March 1953�May 1954 ""; ""1. “More Important than Korea:� Background to Negotiation ""; ""2. Defeat in Vietnam? The Battle for Dien Bien Phu "" |
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""3. The Vietnamese Confront the Cold War """"4. Before Geneva: The Foundations of Western Disunity ""; ""5. In Search of a “Lesser Evil:� Partition as an Idea ""; ""6. United Action Averted ""; ""Part II: The Geneva Conference on Indochina, May�July 1954 "" |
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""7. The Geneva Conference: The Bidault Phase """"8. Gouverner, c�est choisir ""; ""9. The Geneva Conference: The Mend�s-France Phase ""; ""Part III: The Global Legacy, July 1954�July 1956 ""; ""10. Making Partition Permanent ""; ""11. Global Implications ""; ""Epilogue: “Our Offspring� "" |
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""Notes """"Sources ""; ""Index "" |
| Summary |
The French withdrawal from Vietnam in 1954 was the product of global pressures and triggered significant global consequences. By treating the war as an international issue, this book places Indochina at the centre of the Cold War in the mid-1950s |
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The French withdrawal from Vietnam in 1954 was the product of global pressures and triggered significant global consequences. By treating the war as an international issue, this book places Indochina at the center of the Cold War in the mid-1950s. Arguing that the Indochina War cannot be understood as a topic of Franco-US relations, but ought to be treated as international history, this volume brings in Vietnamese and other global agents, including New Zealand, Australia, and especially Britain, as well as China and the Soviet Union. Importantly, the book also argues that the successful French withdrawal from Vietnam - a political defeat for the Eisenhower administration - helped to avert outright warfare between the major powers, although with very mixed results for the inhabitants of Vietnam who faced partition and further bloodshed. The End of the First Indochina War explores the complexities of intra-alliance competition over global strategy - especially between the United States and British Commonwealth - arguing that these rivalries are as important to understanding the Cold War as east-west confrontation. This is the first truly global interpretation of the French defeat in 1954, based on the author's research in five western countries and the latest scholarship from historians of Vietnam, China, and Russia. Readers will find much that is new both in terms of archival revelations and original interpretations. The French withdrawal from Vietnam in 1954 was the product of global pressures and triggered significant global consequences. By treating the war as an international issue, this book places Indochina at the center of the Cold War in the mid-1950s. Arguing that the Indochina War cannot be understood as a topic of Franco-US relations, but ought to be treated as international history, this volume brings in Vietnamese and other global agents, including New Zealand, Australia, and especially Britain, as well as China and the Soviet Union. Importantly, the book also argues that the successful French withdrawal from Vietnam - a political defeat for the Eisenhower administration - helped to avert outright warfare between the major powers, although with very mixed results for the inhabitants of Vietnam who faced partition and further bloodshed. The End of the First Indochina War explores the complexities of intra-alliance competition over global strategy - especially between the United States and British Commonwealth - arguing that these rivalries are as important to understanding the Cold War as east-west confrontation. This is the first truly global interpretation of the French defeat in 1954, based on the author's research in five western countries and the latest scholarship from historians of Vietnam, China, and Russia. Readers will find much that is new both in terms of archival revelations and original interpretations |
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Print version record |
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Geneva Conference (1954) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50068579
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Geneva Conference fast |
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Indochinese War, 1946-1954 -- Peace
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Indochinese War, 1946-1954 -- Diplomatic history
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World politics -- 1945-1955.
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Diplomatic history
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Peace
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World politics
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780203110041 |
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0203110048 |
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