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"An important, well-conceived, and original piece of historical synthesis."--Peter Zinoman, author of "The Colonial Bastille: A History of Imprisonment in Vietnam"
""Indochina" is the first and best general history of French colonial Indochina from its inception in 1858 to its crumbling in 1954. It is the only work to avoid nationalist, colonialist, and anticolonialist historiographies in order to fully explore the ambiguity of the French colonial period. A major contribution to the national histories of France, Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia."--Christopher Goscha, "Universite du Quebec a Montreal"
Review Quotes: "There is an extraordinary amount of useful information and well-crafted argument in this book; it deserves to be consulted widely."-- "Journal Of Modern History" (2/14/2012 12:00:00 AM)