This comprehensive work traces Viet Nam's history, a narrative of a multi-ethnic, multi-religious heritage, from ancient chiefdoms to imperial provinces, from independent kingdoms to contending regions, civil wars, French colonies, and modern republics.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- Introduction
- Part 1 Chiefdoms
- Chapter 1 Water, Rice, and Bronze: Viet Nam in Prehistory
- Part 2 Provinces
- Chapter 2 Calming the Waves: Chinese Conquest and Indigenization, 221 BCE-540 CE
- Chapter 3 Mountains and Rivers of the South: Annam and its Neighbors, 6th to 10th Centuries
- Part 3 Kingdoms
- Chapter 4 "Rice from the Sky:" Assembling the Spirits of Dai Viet, 940-1340
- Chapter 5 Smooth Flowing Waters of Government: The Triumph of Confucianism, 1340-1570
- Part 3 Regions
- Chapter 6 Contending Shogunates: Inner and Outer Regions, 1570-1770
- Chapter 7 Alternative Unifications: Rebellion and Restoration, 1771-1859
- Part 4 Colonies
- Chapter 8 "World Trends" and French Conquest, 1860-1920
- Chapter 9 Writing and Revolution from Colonialism to Independence, 1920-1954
- Part 5 Republics
- Chapter 10 The American-Vietnamese War, 1954-1975
- Chapter 11 The Making of Contemporary Viet Nam, 1975-2015
- Notes
- Bibliography
