|
" Britain and the origins of the Vietnam War : "
T.O. Smith.
| Document Type
|
:
|
BL
|
| Record Number
|
:
|
973953
|
| Doc. No
|
:
|
b728323
|
| Main Entry
|
:
|
Smith, T. O.
|
| Title & Author
|
:
|
Britain and the origins of the Vietnam War : : UK policy in Indo-China, 1943-50 /\ T.O. Smith.
|
| Publication Statement
|
:
|
New York :: Palgrave Macmillan,, 2007.
|
| Series Statement
|
:
|
Global Conflict Since 1945
|
| Page. NO
|
:
|
1 online resource
|
| ISBN
|
:
|
0230591663
|
|
|
:
|
: 128173702X
|
|
|
:
|
: 9780230591660
|
|
|
:
|
: 9781281737021
|
| Notes
|
:
|
Portions of this book were published in an earlier form as "Britain and Cambodia September 1945-November 1946 : a reappraisal" in Diplomacy and Statecraft 17, no.1 (March 2006) pp. 73-91.
|
| Contents
|
:
|
Churchill and Roosevelt, January 1943-July 1945 -- Liberation, July 1945-March 1946 -- Lord Killearn, March 1946-May 1948 -- The Winds of Change, May 1948-January 1950 -- Consequences, January-June 1950.
|
| Abstract
|
:
|
Offering a bold new interpretation of British foreign policy, Britain and the Origins of the Vietnam War deftly examines Britain's involvement with Vietnam from Churchill's World War II deliberations - about Roosevelt's desire to remove Indo-China from the French Empire - to the zenith and subsequent unravelling of British foreign policy in 1950. Using archival and private papers from Britain and France, Smith argues that Britain did not unilaterally restore Indo-China to France following World War II but pursued an active interest in Vietnamese and Cambodian affairs for strategic and humanitarian reasons. Smith offers a new defence of the controversial actions of the British liberation force commander, Major-General Douglas Gracey, and contrasts British and French attitudes towards Asian nationalism and the common problem of communism. This Anglocentric study produces a new insight into British foreign and imperial policy during the formative years of the Vietnam War.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Vietnam War, 1961-1975-- Causes.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Asian history.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
British Irish history.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Diplomatic relations.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Geopolitics.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
History of the Americas.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Vietnam War.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
War-- Causes.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Warfare and Defence.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Great Britain, Foreign relations, 20th century.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Great Britain, Foreign relations, Indochina.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Great Britain, Foreign relations, Vietnam.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Indochina, Foreign relations, Great Britain.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Vietnam, Foreign relations, Great Britain.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Great Britain.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Indochina.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Vietnam.
|
| Dewey Classification
|
:
|
327.41059709/044
|
| LC Classification
|
:
|
DS546.5.G74S65 2007eb
|
| |