D R SarDesai

Vietnam

Past and Present

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Updated to include recent events and new insights, SarDesai argues that the quest for national identity is a recurring theme throughout two millennia of Vietnamese history, and this nationalism fuels Vietnamese struggles against France, the United States, and China.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• 4th edition
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Februar 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 167mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 399g
• ISBN-13: 9780813343082
• ISBN-10: 0813343089
• Artikelnr.: 21543803

Autorenporträt

D. R. SarDesai is former Chairperson of South and Southeast Asian Studies and the first holder of the Doshi Chair in Indian History at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of Southeast Asia: Past and Present 5th Edition (Westview Press, 2003). He is also the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Yadunandan centre for India Studies for his caring and distinguished work in South and Southeast Asian studies.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Ethnicity, Geography, and Early History
A Millennium of Freedom
The French Conquest of Vietnam
The Nationalist Movement
Roots of the Second Indochina War
The Indochina Imbroglio
The New Vietnam
Vietnam and Its Immediate Neighbors
Vietnam's Relations with China, the Soviet Union, and ASEAN
US
Vietnam Relations and Vietnamese Americans
Chronology