商品簡介
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 to the largely unexpected Viet Minh seizure of power only months later. Providing persuasive reasons for the conjuncture of these two climactic events, Geoffrey C. Gunn explores the context in which colonial France developed and exploited Vietnam's rich agricultural potential. He also contextualizes earlier episodes of peasant resistance to colonialism, setting the scene for power plays over land and rice among French colonialists, Japanese militarists, and the Vietnamese themselves. 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.
作者簡介
Geoffrey C. Gunn is Emeritus Professor, Nagasaki University, Japan.
