02381nam 2200601 450 991046375870332120200520144314.01-4422-2303-0(CKB)2670000000546440(EBL)1638084(SSID)ssj0001132891(PQKBManifestationID)12373228(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001132891(PQKBWorkID)11155292(PQKB)11395972(MiAaPQ)EBC1638084(Au-PeEL)EBL1638084(CaPaEBR)ebr10852621(CaONFJC)MIL582485(OCoLC)871257988(EXLCZ)99267000000054644020140405h20142014 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrRice wars in colonial Vietnam the Great Famine and the Viet Minh road to power /Geoffrey C. GunnLanham, Maryland :Rowman & Littlefield,2014.©20141 online resource (345 p.)Asia/Pacific/PerspectivesDescription based upon print version of record.1-306-51234-4 1-4422-2302-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.This book offers the first detailed English-language examination of the Great Vietnamese Famine of 1945, which left at least a million dead, and links it persuasively to the largely unexpected Viet Minh seizure of power only months later. Drawing on extensive research in French archives, Geoffrey C. Gunn offers an important new interpretation of Japanese-Vichy French wartime economic exploitation of Vietnam's agricultural potential. Gunn asks whether the famine signaled a loss of the French administration's "mandate of heaven," or whether the overall dire human condition was the deAsia/Pacific/perspectives.FaminesVietnamVietnamHistory20th centuryVietnamEconomic conditions20th centuryVietnamColonizationElectronic books.Famines959.704Gunn Geoffrey C.918559MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910463758703321Rice wars in colonial Vietnam2059718UNINA