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Contested Territory
Dien Bien Phu and the Making of Northwest Vietnam
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English
Published/Copyright:
2019
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The definitive account of one of the most important battles of the twentieth century, and the Black River borderlands’ transformation into Northwest Vietnam
This new work of historical and political geography ventures beyond the conventional framing of the Battle of Ä?iện Biên Phủ, the 1954 conflict that toppled the French empire in Indochina. Tracking a longer period of anticolonial revolution and nation-state formation from 1945 to 1960, Christian Lentz argues that a Vietnamese elite constructed territory as a strategic form of rule. Engaging newly available archival sources, Lentz offers a novel conception of territory as a contingent outcome of spatial contests.
This new work of historical and political geography ventures beyond the conventional framing of the Battle of Ä?iện Biên Phủ, the 1954 conflict that toppled the French empire in Indochina. Tracking a longer period of anticolonial revolution and nation-state formation from 1945 to 1960, Christian Lentz argues that a Vietnamese elite constructed territory as a strategic form of rule. Engaging newly available archival sources, Lentz offers a novel conception of territory as a contingent outcome of spatial contests.
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Christian C. Lentz is associate professor of geography at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Acknowledgments
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A Note on Vietnamese Language and Sources
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Introduction: A World-Historical Place
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Chapter One. “Vast Area, Sparse People”
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Chapter Two. Vietnam on the March
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Chapter Three. Anxious Economies
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Chapter 4. Điện Biên Phủ and the Logistics of Territory
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Chapter 5. Struggles at Điện Biên Phủ
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Chapter 6. Revolutionary Alternatives
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Epilogue: Recounting ĐiỆN BIÊN PHỦ
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Abbreviations
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Notes
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Bibliography
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Index
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April 23, 2019
eBook ISBN:
9780300245585
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320
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23 b-w illus.
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