The end of the First Indochina War
Subtitle: a global history
By: by James Waite
Series: Routledge studies on history and globalization -- 3
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 299
ISBN-13: 9780415886840
Subjects: Diplomatic history; Indochinese War, 1946-1954; Peace; Geneva Conference (1954); World politics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Escalation and negotiation, March 1953-May 1954; title: "More important than Korea": background to negotiation; title: Defeat in Vietnam? The Battle for Dien Bien Phu; title: The Vietnamese confront the Cold War; title: Before Geneva: the foundations of western disunity; title: In search of a "lesser evil": partition as an idea; title: United action averted; title: The Geneva Conference on Indochina, May-July 1954; title: The Geneva Conference: the Bidault Phase; title: Gouverner, c'est choisir; title: The Geneva Conference: the Mend's-France Phase; title: The global legacy, July 1954-July 1956; title: Making partition permanent; title: Global implications; title: Epilogue: "Our offspring".