The end of the First Indochina War [electronic resource] : a global history / James Waite.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Waite, James, 1976-
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2012.
Series:Routledge studies on history and globalization ; 3
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Variant Title:
The End of the First Indochina War: A Global History
Format: Electronic eBook
Contents:
  • Escalation and negotiation, March 1953-May 1954
  • "More important than Korea": background to negotiation
  • Defeat in Vietnam? The Battle for Dien Bien Phu
  • The Vietnamese confront the Cold War
  • Before Geneva: the foundations of western disunity
  • In search of a "lesser evil": partition as an idea
  • United action averted
  • The Geneva Conference on Indochina, May-July 1954
  • The Geneva Conference: the Bidault Phase
  • Gouverner, c'est choisir
  • The Geneva Conference: the Mend's-France Phase
  • The global legacy, July 1954-July 1956
  • Making partition permanent
  • Global implications
  • Epilogue: "Our offspring".