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August Revolution of 1945
Author_David G. Marr
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french indochina
ground force invasions
hanoi
history
ho chi min
independence
intense
jingoism
lively
military mobilization
modernization
nascent state
national assembly
nationalism
negotiations
page turner
peace talks
revolution
revolutionary euphoria
saigon
southeast asia history
uncertainty
vietnam
vietnam war
vietnamese
villages
war drama
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Product details
- ISBN 9780520274150
- Weight: 1134g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 15 Apr 2013
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Amidst the revolutionary euphoria of August 1945, most Vietnamese believed that colonialism and war were being left behind in favor of independence and modernization. The late-September British-French coup de force in Saigon cast a pall over such assumptions. Ho Chi Minh tried to negotiate a mutually advantageous relationship with France, but meanwhile told his lieutenants to plan for a war in which the nascent state might have to survive without allies. In this landmark study, David Marr evokes the uncertainty and contingency as well as coherence and momentum of fast-paced events. Mining recently accessible sources in Aix-en-Provence and Hanoi, Marr explains what became the largest, most intense mobilization of human resources ever seen in Vietnam.
David Marr is Emeritus Professor of History at Australian National University and the author of Vietnamese Anticolonialism, 1885-1925 (1971), Vietnamese Tradition on Trial, 1920-1945 (1981), and Vietnam 1945: The Quest for Power (1995), all published with University of California Press.
