The first Vietnam war : violence, sovereignty, and the fracture of the south, 1945-1956 /
McHale, Shawn F.,author.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-299) and index.
Introduction: sovereignty, violence, and institutional collapse at the edge of France's empire -- Part I: France, 1945-1947 : 1. A plural Mekong delta under stress -- 2. The Southern General Uprising -- 3. Priming upheavals in the Mekong delta -- 4. The double fracture of the Mekong delta -- Part II: Disassemblage/reassemblage, 1947-1953 : 5. Empire, racial survival, and race hatred -- 6. Contesting state and sovereignty -- 7. Forced migrations and suffering -- 8. French pacification meets the Vietnamese resistance -- 9. Alternative trajectories: seeing like parastates, militias, and strongmen -- Part III: Endgame, 1953-1956 : 10. The twilight of empire and the strange birth of South Vietnam.
Indochinese War, 1946-1954.
Autonomy and independence movements.