Imagining Vietnam and America
Subtitle: The Making of Postcolonial Vietnam, 1919-1950 (The New Cold War History)
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: August 30, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780807825495
Subjects: American history: from c 1900 -; Asian / Middle Eastern history: from c 1900 -; International relations; Inter-war period, 1918-1939; Second World War, 1939-1945; c 1945 to c 1960; Political Science; U.S. - Pacific Rim Relations; History - General History; United States; Politics/International Relations; USA; Vietnam; Politics and government; Asia - Southeast Asia; United States - 20th Century; History / United States / 20th Century; Vietnam; Cold War; Vietnamese-language; Vietnamese-American relations; Asian studies; political studies; diplomacy; International Relations - General; 20th century; Foreign relations
First sentence: In the winter and spring of 1919, as the Paris Peace Conference deliberated over the postwar peace settlement for Europe, members of the Vietnamese expatriate association known as the Groupe des Patriotes Annamites often gathered in a small Parisian apartment in the thirteenth arrondissement.