R B Smith

Communist Indochina

Herausgeber: Williams, Beryl

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Examines the history of communist Indochina, from the foundation of the Indochinese Communist Party in 1929-30 to the end of the 1970s. This book explores the impact of the Japanese invasion of Indochina in 1940, and the subsequent relationship between the Japanese occupiers and the Vichy French colonial regime.

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Written by the late Ralph Smith, a highly respected historian of Asia, this book examines the history of communist Indochina, from the foundation of the Indochinese Communist Party in 1929-30 to the end of the 1970s.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Dezember 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9780415468046
• ISBN-10: 0415468043
• Artikelnr.: 23605981

Autorenporträt

R.B. Smith was Professor of the International History of South-East Asia at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, where he taught from 1962-2000. His works include Vietnam and the West (1971); and the three volume An International History of the Vietnam War (1983, 1985, 1990). Beryl Williams is Emeritus Reader in History, University of Sussex, UK. She taught at Sussex from 1963-2003, and her publications include The Russian Revolution 1917-1921 (1987) and Lenin (2000).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Beryl Williams. Introduction A.J. Stockwell (Emeritus Professor of
Modern History, Royal Holloway, University of London) 1. The Foundation of
the Indochinese Communist Party, 1929-1930 2. The Japanese Period in
Indochina and the Coup of 9 March 1945 3. The Vietnamese Revolution of
August-September 1945: A South-East Asian Perspective 4. The Work of the
Provisional Government of Vietnam, August-December 1945 5. China and
Southeast Asia: The Revolutionary Perspective, 1951 6. The Tet Crisis of
1967-68 in Perspective 7. The International Setting of the Cambodia Crisis,
1969-1970 8. Cambodia in the Context of Sino-Vietnamese Relations