The Road to War

France and Vietnam 1944-1947
1. Auflage 2003
ISBN: 978-1-57181-149-3
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 2, 324 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 410 g

Reihe: Contemporary France

How did France become embroiled in Vietnam, in the first of long wars of decolonization? And why did the French colonial administration, in late 1946, having negotiated with Ho Chi Minh for a year, adopt a warlike stance towards Ho's régime which ran counter to the liberal colonial doctrine of liberated France? Based on French archival sources, almost all of them previously unavailable to the English-speaking reader, the author assesses the policy that emerged from the 1944 Brazzaville conference; and the doomed attempt to apply that policy in Indo-China.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Shipway, Martin

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Note on Text

Abbreviations

Map of Indochina, 1945

Introduction

PART I: THE EXTERNAL AND DOMESTIC PARAMETERS OF COLONIAL POLICY MAKING

Chapter 1. The Brazzaville Conference and its Origins, 1940-1944: Policy Formulation and Myth Making on the Congo

Chapter 2. The Republic Strikes Back, 1944-1945: Brazzaville Policy and the Metropolitan Critique

Chapter 3. 'We are in the Midst of Colonial Crisis': The Response to International and Colonial Change

Chapter 4. The Domestic Parameters of Colonial Policy Making after the Liberation, 1944-1946

PART II: POLICY MAKING IN INDOCHINA AND ITS BREAKDOWN, 1945-1947

Chapter 5. Calculating the Stakes: Brazzaville Policy and the 'Return' to Indochina, December 1943-September 1945

Chapter 6. The Primacy of Action: From the 'Return' to Saigon, October 1945, to the Signing of the Accords of 6 March 1946

Chapter 7. Who Rules: Paris or Saigon? The Dalat Conference and the Cochinchina Policy, March-June 1946

Chapter 8. 'A Round of the Battle we are Fighting': The Fontainebleau Conference, June-Septe,ber 1946

Chapter 9. The Narrowing of French Policy Options, Autumn 1946: The Accords Policy Abandoned?

Chapter 10. 'The Tonkin Vespers', December 1946: Burying the Accords Policy

Conclusion

Appendix I: The Administrative Structure of the French Empire, 1945

Appendix II: Chronology of Events in France and Indochina, 1944-1947

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Shipway, Martin
Martin Shipway teaches in the Department of French, Birkbeck College, University of London.