LEADER 02677nam 2200601 450 001 9910809981403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-4422-2303-0 035 $a(CKB)2670000000546440 035 $a(EBL)1638084 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001132891 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12373228 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001132891 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11155292 035 $a(PQKB)11395972 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1638084 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1638084 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10852621 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL582485 035 $a(OCoLC)871257988 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000546440 100 $a20140405h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aRice wars in colonial Vietnam $ethe Great Famine and the Viet Minh road to power /$fGeoffrey C. Gunn 210 1$aLanham, Maryland :$cRowman & Littlefield,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (345 p.) 225 1 $aAsia/Pacific/Perspectives 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-306-51234-4 311 $a1-4422-2302-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aThe 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. 330 $aThis book offers the first detailed English-language examination of the Great Vietnamese Famine of 1945, which left at least a million dead, and links it persuasively to the largely unexpected Viet Minh seizure of power only months later. Drawing on extensive research in French archives, Geoffrey C. Gunn offers an important new interpretation of Japanese-Vichy French wartime economic exploitation of Vietnam's agricultural potential. Gunn asks whether the famine signaled a loss of the French administration's "mandate of heaven," or whether the overall dire human condition was the de 410 0$aAsia/Pacific/perspectives. 606 $aFamines$zVietnam 607 $aVietnam$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aVietnam$xEconomic conditions$y20th century 607 $aVietnam$xColonization 615 0$aFamines 676 $a959.704 700 $aGunn$b Geoffrey C.$0918559 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910809981403321 996 $aRice wars in colonial Vietnam$93960142 997 $aUNINA