02677nam 2200601 450 991078785880332120200520144314.01-4422-2303-0(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.The agrarian setting -- Anti-colonial resistance -- The rice rebellions of 1930-31 -- The popular front years (1936-39) -- Vichy and the Japanese occupation (1940-45) -- Allied power plays -- The August revolution of 1945 and its defense -- The Great Vietnam Famine (1944-45) -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- 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 centuryVietnamColonizationFamines959.704Gunn Geoffrey C.918559MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910787858803321Rice wars in colonial Vietnam3837538UNINA