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

• Autore: Bradley Mark <1961->
• Pubblicazione: Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2000
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (320 p.)
• Disciplina: 959.7/03
• Soggetto geografico: Vietnam Politics and government 20th century; Vietnam Foreign relations United States; United States Foreign relations Vietnam; United States Foreign relations 20th century
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Imagining Vietnam and America
• ISBN: 979-88-908695-3-1; 0-8078-6057-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910823340203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: New Cold War history.