Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ix
4. NOTE ON TEXT xi
5. Map of Indochina, 1945 xiii
6. INTRODUCTION 1
7. PART I THE EXTERNAL AND DOMESTIC PARAMETERS OF COLONIAL POLICY MAKING
8. 1 THE BRAZZAVILLE CONFERENCE AND ITS ORIGINS, 1940–1944 Policy Formulation and Myth Making on the Congo 11
9. 2 THE REPUBLIC STRIKES BACK, 1944–1945 Brazzaville Policy and the Metropolitan Critique 41
10. 3 ‘WE ARE IN THE MIDST OF COLONIAL CRISIS’ The Response to International and Colonial Change 64
11. 4 THE DOMESTIC PARAMETERS OF COLONIAL POLICY MAKING AFTER THE LIBERATION, 1944–1946 84
12. PART II POLICY MAKING IN INDOCHINA AND ITS BREAKDOWN, 1945–1947
13. 5 CALCULATING THE STAKES The Brazzaville Policy and the ‘Return’ to Indochina, December 1943–September 1945 115
14. 6 THE PRIMACY OF ACTION From the ‘Return’ to Saigon, October 1945, to the Signing of the Accords of 6 March 1946 150
15. 7 WHO RULES: PARIS OR SAIGON? The Dalat Conference and the Cochinchina Policy, March–June 1946 177
16. 8 ‘A ROUND OF THE BATTLE WE ARE FIGHTING’ The Fontainebleau Conference, June–September 1946 200
17. 9 THE NARROWING OF FRENCH POLICY OPTIONS, AUTUMN 1946 The Accords Policy Abandoned? 222
18. 10 ‘THE TONKIN VESPERS’, DECEMBER 1946 Burying the Accords Policy 248
19. CONCLUSION 273
20. APPENDIX I The Administrative Structure of the French Empire, 1945 280
21. APPENDIX II Chronology of Events in France and Indochina, 1944–1947 282
22. BIBLIOGRAPHY 287
23. INDEX 296