Rice wars in colonial Vietnam : the Great Famine and the Viet Minh road to power /

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Author / Creator:	Gunn, Geoffrey C., author.
Imprint:	Lanham, Maryland ; Plymouth, United Kingdom : Rowman & Littlefield, [2014] ©2014
Description:	1 online resource (xix, 323 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Series:	Asia/Pacific/perspectives Asia/Pacific/perspectives.
Subject:	Famines -- Vietnam. Colonization. Economic history. Famines. Vietnam -- History -- 20th century. Vietnam -- Economic conditions -- 20th century. Vietnam -- Colonization. Vietnam. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11404452

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ISBN:	9781442223035 1442223030 9781442223028 1442223022
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. English. Print version record.
Summary:	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. 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 fa.
Other form:	Print version: Gunn, Geoffrey C. Rice wars in colonial Vietnam 9781442223028

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