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Imagining Vietnam and America: The Making of Postcolonial Vietnam, 1919-1950 (The New Cold War History)
Mark Philip Bradley
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Paperback. Explores the origins of the Cold War in Vietnam and postcolonial Vietnam's place in history. The author argues that the global discourse and practices of colonialism, race, modernism and postcolonial state-making were implicated in the dynamics of the Cold War in shaping US-Vietnamese relations. Series: New Cold War History. Num Pages: 344 pages, 1 map, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1FMV; 1KBB; 3JJG; 3JJH; 3JJPG; HBJF; HBJK; HBLW; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 463.
This study of the encounter between Vietnam and the United States from 1919 to 1950 reconceptualizes the origins of the Cold War in Vietnam and the place of postcolonial Vietnam in the history of the 20th century. Among the first Americans granted a visa to undertake research in Vietnam since the war, Bradley draws on newly available Vietnamese-language primary sources and interviews as well as archival materials from France, Great Britain and the United States. Bradley uses these sources to reveal an imagined America that occupied a central place in Vietnamese political discourse, symbolizing the qualities that revolutionaries believed were ... Read more
This study of the encounter between Vietnam and the United States from 1919 to 1950 reconceptualizes the origins of the Cold War in Vietnam and the place of postcolonial Vietnam in the history of the 20th century. Among the first Americans granted a visa to undertake research in Vietnam since the war, Bradley draws on newly available Vietnamese-language primary sources and interviews as well as archival materials from France, Great Britain and the United States. Bradley uses these sources to reveal an imagined America that occupied a central place in Vietnamese political discourse, symbolizing the qualities that revolutionaries believed were ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Condition
New
Series
The New Cold War History
Number of Pages
344
Place of Publication
Chapel Hill, United States
ISBN
9780807848616
SKU
V9780807848616
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About Mark Philip Bradley
MARK L. BRADLEY is author of Last Stand in the Carolinas: The Battle of Bentonville. He lives in Graham, North Carolina.
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