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Author Shipway, Martin.

Title The road to war : France and Vietnam, 1944-1947 / Martin Shipway
Published Providence : Berghahn Books, 1996

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Description xii, 306 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm
Series Contemporary France ; v. 2
Contemporary France (Providence, R.I.) ; v. 2
Contents Map of Indochina, 1945 -- 1. The Brazzaville Conference and Its Origins, 1940-1944: Policy Formulation and Myth Making on the Congo -- 2. The Republic Strikes Back, 1944-1945: Brazzaville Policy and the Metropolitan Critique -- 3. 'We Are in the Midst of Colonial Crisis': The Response to International and Colonial Change -- 4. The Domestic Parameters of Colonial Policy Making After the Liberation, 1944-1946 -- 5. Calculating the Stakes: Brazzaville Policy and the 'Return' to Indochina, December 1943-September 1945 -- 6. The Primacy of Action: From the 'Return' to Saigon, October 1945, to the Signing of the Accords of 6 March 1946 -- 7. Who Rules: Paris or Saigon? The Dalat Conference and the Cochinchina Policy, March-June 1946 -- 8. 'A Round of the Battle We Are Fighting': The Fontainebleau Conference, June-September 1946 -- 9. The Narrowing of French Policy Options, Autumn 1946: The Accords Policy Abandoned?
10. 'The Tonkin Vespers', December 1946: Burying the Accords Policy -- App. I. The Administrative Structure of the French Empire, 1945 -- App. II. Chronology of Events in France and Indochina, 1944-1947
Summary How did France become embroiled in Vietnam, in the first of long wars of decolonisation? And why did the French colonial administration, in late 1946, having negotiated with Ho Chi Minh for a year, adopt a warlike stance towards Ho's regime that ran counter to the liberal colonial doctrine of liberated France? Based on French archival sources, almost all of them previously unavailable to the English-speaking reader, the author assesses the policy that emerged from the 1944 Brazzaville Conference, and the doomed attempt to apply that policy in Indochina
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [287]-295) and index
Subject Indochinese War, 1946-1954.
SUBJECT France -- Colonies http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051201 -- Indochina. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85065716
France -- Colonies. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051201
Indochina -- History -- 1945- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85065718
Vietnam -- History -- 1945-1975. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85143261
LC no. 96024310
ISBN 1571811494 (paperback)
1571818944 (alk. paper)