Vietnam: Past and Present

ISBN-13: 9780367319205 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019

D.R. SarDesai

Opis

Recent U.S. military interventions in Kosovo and Iraq have stirred public memories of the long and costly Vietnam conflict. Scholars and strategists, military leaders and media continue to raise questions such as what motivated the Vietnamese to wage a protracted conflict first against the French and later against the Americans at such great econom

Spis treści

Preface -- Ethnicity, Geography, and Early History -- A Millennium of Freedom -- The French Conquest of Vietnam -- The Nationalist Movement -- Roots of the Second Indochina War -- The Indochina Imbroglio -- The New Vietnam -- Vietnam and Its Immediate Neighbors -- Vietnam's Relations with China, the Soviet Union, and ASEAN -- US-Vietnam Relations and Vietnamese Americans -- Chronology

O autorze

D. R. SarDesai is former Chairperson of South and Southeast Asian Studies and the first holder of the Doshi Chair in Indian History at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of Southeast Asia: Past and Present 5th Edition (Westview Press, 2003). He is also the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Yadunandan centre for India Studies for his caring and distinguished work in South and Southeast Asian studies.