Description: Breaking with nationalist and colonial historiographies, which have largely locked Vietnam into Indochinese or nation-state straightjackets, Goscha takes Thailand as his point of departure for exploring how the Vietnamese revolution was intimately linked to Asia between 1885 and 1954.
Review Quotes:
'A path-breaking contribution to our understanding of an important new perspective in South East Asian history, undertaken by a scholar with an authoritative grasp of the relevant source materials.' - Ralph Smith, South East Asia Research