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How did France become embroiled in Vietnam, in the first of long wars of decolonization? And why did the French colonial administration, in late 1946, having negotiated with Ho Chi Minh for a year, adopt a warlike stance towards Ho's régime which ran counter to the liberal colonial doctrine of liberated France? Based on French archival sources, almost all of them previously unavailable to the English-speaking reader, the author assesses the policy that emerged from the 1944 Brazzaville conference; and the doomed attempt to apply that policy in Indo-China.
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Acknowledgements
Note on Text
Abbreviations
Map of Indochina, 1945
Introduction
PART I: THE EXTERNAL AND DOMESTIC PARAMETERS OF COLONIAL POLICY MAKING
Chapter 1. The Brazzaville Conference and its Origins, 1940-1944: Policy Formulation and Myth Making on the Congo
Chapter 2. The Republic Strikes Back, 1944-1945: Brazzaville Policy and the Metropolitan Critique
Chapter 3. 'We are in the Midst of Colonial Crisis': The Response to International and Colonial Change
Chapter 4. The Domestic Parameters of Colonial Policy Making after the Liberation, 1944-1946
PART II: POLICY MAKING IN INDOCHINA AND ITS BREAKDOWN, 1945-1947
Chapter 5. Calculating the Stakes: Brazzaville Policy and the 'Return' to Indochina, December 1943-September 1945
Chapter 6. The Primacy of Action: From the 'Return' to Saigon, October 1945, to the Signing of the Accords of 6 March 1946
Chapter 7. Who Rules: Paris or Saigon? The Dalat Conference and the Cochinchina Policy, March-June 1946
Chapter 8. 'A Round of the Battle we are Fighting': The Fontainebleau Conference, June-Septe,ber 1946
Chapter 9. The Narrowing of French Policy Options, Autumn 1946: The Accords Policy Abandoned?
Chapter 10. 'The Tonkin Vespers', December 1946: Burying the Accords Policy
Conclusion
Appendix I: The Administrative Structure of the French Empire, 1945
Appendix II: Chronology of Events in France and Indochina, 1944-1947
Bibliography
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