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Record Nr.

UNINA9910823340203321

Autore

Bradley Mark <1961->

Titolo

Imagining Vietnam and America : the making of postcolonial Vietnam, 1919-1950 / / Mark Philip Bradley ; foreword by John Lewis Gaddis

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2000

ISBN

979-88-908695-3-1

0-8078-6057-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (320 p.)

Collana

The new Cold War history

Disciplina

959.7/03

Soggetti

Vietnam Politics and government 20th century

Vietnam Foreign relations United States

United States Foreign relations Vietnam

United States Foreign relations 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-295) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Foreword; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction: Liberty and the Making of Postcolonial Order; 1. European Wind, American Rain; 2. Representing Vietnam; 3. Trusteeship and the American Vision of Postcolonial Vietnam; 4. Self-Evident Truths?; 5. Improbable Opportunities; Conclusion: Becoming Postcolonial in a Cold War World; Notes; Bibliography; Index;

Sommario/riassunto

Explores the origins of the Cold War in Vietnam and postcolonial Vietnam's place in history. The author argues that the global discourse and practices of colonialism, race, modernism and postcolonial state-making were implicated in the dynamics of the Cold War in shaping US-Vietnamese relations.