European wind, American rain: the United States in Vietnamese anticolonial discourse -- Representing Vietnam: the interwar American construction of French Indochina -- Trusteeship and the American vision of postcolonial Vietnam -- Self-evident truths?: Vietnam, America, and the August revolution of 1945 -- Improbable opportunities: Vietnamese and American diplomacy in the postcolonial moment -- Conclusion becoming postcolonial in a Cold War world
Summary
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
Analysis
Humaniora Historie
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-295) and index
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