Rice wars in colonial Vietnam : the Great Famine and the Viet Minh road to power /

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This book offers the first detailed English-language examination of the Great Vietnamese Famine of 1945, which left at least a million dead, and links it persuasively to the largely unexpected Viet Minh seizure of power only months later. Drawing on extensive research in French archives, Geoffrey C....

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gunn, Geoffrey C. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham, Maryland ; Plymouth, United Kingdom : Rowman and Littlefield, [2014]
Colección:Asia/Pacific/perspectives.
Temas:
Hungersnot
Vietminh
The Vietnam War > Filmmusik
1900-1999
Famines > Vietnam.
Famines > Viêt-nam.
HISTORY > Asia > Southeast Asia.
Colonization
Economic history
Famines
Kolonialismus
Rebellion
Reisanbau
Vietnam > History > 20th century.
Vietnam > Economic conditions > 20th century.
Vietnam > Colonization.
Viêt-nam > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Viêt-nam > Conditions économiques > 20e siècle.
Vietnam
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The agrarian setting
  • Anti-colonial resistance
  • The rice rebellions of 1930-31
  • The popular front years (1936-39)
  • Vichy and the Japanese occupation (1940-45)
  • Allied power plays
  • The August revolution of 1945 and its defense
  • The Great Vietnam Famine (1944-45)
  • Epilogue
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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