Hanoi Adieu

Author : Mandaley Perkins
Publisher : HarperCollins Australia
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780730444503

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Hanoi Adieu by Mandaley Perkins Pdf

Michel L'Herpiniere arrived in Hanoi as a teenager in the years before World War II. He fell in love with the country and the people, but gradually became aware that not all those around him felt the same way. Michel's story, brilliantly recreated by his stepdaughter Mandaley Perkins, is inevitably entwined with the history of Vietnam: the rise of the nationalist movement; the Japanese occupation; the revolution by the Vietminh and the United States' refusal to aid a 'colonial regime'; and the chaotic and tragic aftermath of World War II. In the heat and passion of the time, nothing and no-one can be read on the surface. Hanoi, Adieu is an intimate and compelling journey through the exotic and tumultuous final decades of French Indochina, as well as a moving story of love and loss. Shortlisted for the 2006 New South Wales Premier's Award for Non-fiction "an exquisitely beautiful and most beguiling story" Judges' comments

Author : Mandaley Perkins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : French
ISBN : 6047703909

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Hanoi Adieu by Mandaley Perkins Pdf

Author : Simo Laakkonen,J. R. McNeill,Richard P. Tucker,Timo Vuorisalo
Publisher : Springer
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030174392

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The Resilient City in World War II by Simo Laakkonen,J. R. McNeill,Richard P. Tucker,Timo Vuorisalo Pdf

The fate of towns and cities stands at the center of the environmental history of World War II. Broad swaths of cityscapes were destroyed by the bombing of targets such as transport hubs, electrical grids, and industrial districts, and across Europe, Asia, and the Americas, urban environments were transformed by the massive mobilization of human and natural resources to support the conflict. But at the same time, the war saw remarkable resilience among the human and non-human residents of cities. Foregrounding the concept of urban resilience, this collection uncovers the creative survival strategies that city-dwellers of all kinds turned to in the midst of environmental devastation. As the first major study at the intersection of environmental, urban, and military history, The Resilient City in World War II lays the groundwork for an improved understanding of rapid change in urban environments, and how societies may adapt.

Author : Christopher Goscha
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691180168

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The Road to Dien Bien Phu by Christopher Goscha Pdf

On May 7, 1954, when the bullets stopped and the air stilled in Dien Bien Phu, there was no doubt that Vietnam could fight a mighty colonial power and win. After nearly a decade of struggle, a nation forged in the crucible of war had achieved a victory undreamed of by any other national liberation movement. This book tells the story of how Ho Chi Minh turned a ragtag guerrilla army into a modern fighting force capable of bringing down the formidable French army

Author : Julia C. Obert
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2023-09-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780198881261

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The Making and Unmaking of Colonial Cities by Julia C. Obert Pdf

The Making and Unmaking of Colonial Cities is a comparative study of architectural space in four (post-)colonial capitals: Belfast, Northern Ireland; Windhoek, Namibia; Bridgetown, Barbados; and Hanoi, Vietnam. Each chapter takes up one of these cities, outlining its history of building and urban planning under colonial rule and linking that history to its contemporary shape and scope. This genealogical information is drawn from primary source documents and archival materials. The chapters then look to local literary texts to better understand the lingering impact of colonial building practices on individuals living in (post-)colonial cities today. These texts often foreground the difficulty of moving through a city that can never feel comfortably one's own; legacies of racial segregation, buildings that disregard indigenous resources, and street names that serve as constant reminders of a history of oppression, for example, can produce feelings of anxiety, even of unbelonging, for native subjects. However, the literature also highlights ways in which the subversive wanderings of particular pedestrians—taking shortcuts, trespassing in forbidden places, diverting spaces from their intended uses—can contest 'official' topography. Bodies can therefore move against the power of a repressive regime, at least to some degree, even when that power is literally set in stone. Obert argues for the significance of these small gestures of reclamation, suggesting that we must counterpose the potential flexibility of lived space to the prohibitions of the map in order to more fully understand (post-)colonial power relations.

Author : Geoffrey C. Gunn
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2014-02-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442223035

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Rice Wars in Colonial Vietnam by Geoffrey C. Gunn Pdf

This book offers the first detailed English-language examination of the Great Vietnamese Famine of 1945, which left at least a million dead, and links it persuasively to the largely unexpected Viet Minh seizure of power only months later. Drawing on extensive research in French archives, Geoffrey C. Gunn offers an important new interpretation of Japanese–Vichy French wartime economic exploitation of Vietnam’s agricultural potential. He analyzes successes and failures of French colonial rice programs and policies from the early 1900s to 1945, drawing clear connections between colonialism and agrarian unrest in the 1930s and the rise of the Viet Minh in the 1940s. Gunn asks whether the famine signaled a loss of the French administration’s “mandate of heaven,” or whether the overall dire human condition was the determining factor in facilitating communist victory in August 1945. In the broader sweep of Vietnamese history, including the rise of the communist party, the picture that emerges is not only one of local victimhood at the hands of outsiders—French and, in turn, Japanese— but the enormous agency on the part of the Vietnamese themselves to achieve moral victory over injustice against all odds, no matter how controversial, tragic, and contested the outcome. As the author clearly demonstrates, colonial-era development strategies and contests also had their postwar sequels in the “American war,” just as land, land reform, and subsistence-sustainable development issues persist into the present.

Author : Art Graham
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 2444 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781546234678

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From Baseballs to Bombshells by Art Graham Pdf

Growing technology and affluence, rock n roll, baseball, and muscle carsall told through the youth and early adult years of a small-town Montana boy and war veteran. This is a history of the glorious 50s and 60s in America. It is a history also of politicians, the indecency of segregation and war, and the struggle for racial equality and peace. A history of two great nations. Intertwined is the unique history of Vietnam and the Vietnamese long struggle for independence. It is a rendering also of the unique culture of Vietnam with fascinating stories of emperors within the walls of a Forbidden City. Included in the book is a review of the relationship of two nationsone mighty and one resistantultimately entangled in a catastrophic war. Nearly fifty-nine thousand Americans lost to family,friends, wives, and lovers. More than two million Vietnamese soldiers and civilians perished in a war that could not be won.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Vietnam
ISBN : UCSD:31822036712925

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Vietnam Economic Times by Anonim Pdf

Author : William L. Gibson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000379754

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Alfred Raquez and the French Experience of the Far East, 1898-1906 by William L. Gibson Pdf

A Study of an Enigmatic Travel Writer and His Work in Colonial Asia during the fin de siècle. In 1898, a man calling himself Alfred Raquez appeared in Indochina claiming to be a writer travelling the world to escape unfathomable sorrows back home in France. He published thousands of pages of highly detailed travel accounts that open a unique window onto the European presence in the Far East. He travelled far into the Zomia of upland Southeast Asia, a peripheral zone populated by people who lived beyond official state power. Raquez explored the nightlife of Shanghai and operated a popular cabaret in Hanoi. An amateur anthropologist, he helped mount expositions of colonial material in Hanoi and Marseille. Raquez met people in the highest circles of belle époque Indochina, as well as the kings of Annam, Cambodia, Laos and Siam. And yet, despite the charm and the ebullience and the erudition, through all his travels and rising fame, the man kept a secret that was so mortifying that even his closest companions would not learn of it until after his death in 1907. In truth, Alfred Raquez did not exist. A fascinating read for students and scholars of colonial Southeast Asia, and European colonialism more broadly.

Author : James Hershberg
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 936 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2012-01-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780804783880

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Marigold by James Hershberg Pdf

Marigold presents the first rigorously documented, in-depth story of one of the Vietnam War's last great mysteries: the secret peace initiative, codenamed "Marigold," that sought to end the war in 1966. The initiative failed, the war dragged on for another seven years, and this episode sank into history as an unresolved controversy. Antiwar critics claimed President Johnson had bungled (or, worse, deliberately sabotaged) a breakthrough by bombing Hanoi on the eve of a planned secret U.S.-North Vietnamese encounter in Poland. Yet, LBJ and top aides angrily insisted that Poland never had authority to arrange direct talks and Hanoi was not ready to negotiate. This book uses new evidence from long hidden communist sources to show that, in fact, Poland was authorized by Hanoi to open direct contacts and that Hanoi had committed to entering talks with Washington. It reveals LBJ's personal role in bombing Hanoi as he utterly disregarded the pleas of both the Polish and his own senior advisors. The historical implications of missing this opportunity are immense: Marigold might have ended the war years earlier, saving thousands of lives, and dramatically changed U.S. political history.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 764 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : American literature
ISBN : UOM:39015066180400

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American Book Publishing Record by Anonim Pdf

Author : Edward G. Doyle,Samuel L. Lipsman
Publisher : Addison Wesley Publishing Company
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0201112612

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Raising the Stakes by Edward G. Doyle,Samuel L. Lipsman Pdf

Author : Edward Doyle,Samuel Lipsman,Stephen Weiss
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015046836402

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Passing the Torch by Edward Doyle,Samuel Lipsman,Stephen Weiss Pdf

Photographs, maps, and eyewitness accounts describe the War in Vietnam.

Author : Anne Raffin
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0739111469

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Youth Mobilization in Vichy Indochina and Its Legacies, 1940 to 1970 by Anne Raffin Pdf

To what extent, and precisely how, are nationalism and patriotism transnational processes? Youth Mobilization in Vichy Indochina and Its Legacies analyzes the causes and consequences of state-sponsored patriotic youth associations during World War II in French Indochina. Providing an historical account of the transnational policy process of youth mobilization during World War II, this book describes how officials transplanted French doctrines to Indochina with sensitivity toward the varying local political contexts and cultural traditions the French believed they had found there. Engaging the work of Benedict Anderson on nationalism in the Third World, Raffin details the mechanisms by which a set of French colonial practices and discourses sponsored by the colonial state promoted nationalism among local youth and helped to lead the countries of the former French Indochina toward militaristic regimes. This well-researched volume provides a valuable contribution to a period of Indochinese history that is still little studied, and is important reading for students and scholars of colonial history who seek a long-term historical perspective on empire and post-empire state building.

Author : Dinah Jefferies
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 1248 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2017-01-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780241981245

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Dinah Jefferies 3-Book Collection by Dinah Jefferies Pdf

*Dinah Jefferies' first three novels now together in one e-book* The Separation Malaya, 1955. Lydia Cartwright returns from visiting a sick friend to an empty house. The servants are gone. The phone is dead. Where is her husband Alec? Her young daughters, Emma and Fleur? Lydia's search takes her on a hazardous journey through war-torn jungle. Forced to turn to Jack Harding, a man she'd vowed to leave in her past, she sacrifices everything to be reunited with her family. The Tea Planter's Wife Nineteen-year-old Gwendolyn Hooper steps off a steamer in Ceylon full of optimism, eager to join her new husband. But the man who greets her at the tea plantation is not the same one she fell in love with in London. Distant and brooding, Laurence spends long days wrapped up in his work, leaving his young bride to explore the plantation alone. It's a place filled with clues to the past - locked doors, a yellowed wedding dress in a dusty trunk, an overgrown grave hidden in the grounds, far too small for an adult... The Silk Merchant's Daughter 1952, French Indochina. Since her mother's death, eighteen-year-old half-French, half-Vietnamese Nicole has been living in the shadow of her beautiful older sister, Sylvie. When Sylvie is handed control of the family silk business, Nicole is given an abandoned silk shop in the Vietnamese quarter of Hanoi, an area teeming with militant rebels. Tran, a notorious Vietnamese insurgent, seems to offer the perfect escape from her troubles, while Mark, a charming American trader, is the man she's always dreamed of. But who can she trust in this world where no one is what they seem?