Keith Taylor, K. W. Taylor

A History of the Vietnamese

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A groundbreaking, comprehensive history of Vietnam from the earliest times to the present day.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 714
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juni 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 42mm
• Gewicht: 1392g
• ISBN-13: 9780521875868
• ISBN-10: 0521875862
• Artikelnr.: 38126288

Autorenporträt

K. W. Taylor is a professor in the Department of Asian Studies at Cornell University, New York. His career began in the US Army, where he was deployed in the US-Vietnam war. He has now been researching Vietnam for nearly forty years, and his work has made a fundamental contribution to the development of the field.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. The provincial era
2. The Ly dynasty
3. The Tran dynasty
4. The Le dynasty
5. The beginning of inter-regional warfare
6. The Fifty Years War
7. The south and the north diverge
8. The Thirty Years War
9. The Nguyen dynasty
10. The French conquest
11. Franco-Vietnamese colonial relations
12. Indochina at war
13. From two countries to one
Retrospective
Bibliographic essay
Figures
Tables
Maps
Index.