Christopher Goscha draws on the latest research and discoveries in Vietnamese, French and English. His book is a major achievement, describing both the grand narrative of Vietnam's story but also the byways, curiosities, differences, cultures and peoples that have done so much over the centuries to define the many versions of Vietnam.
Christopher Goscha is professor of history at the University of Quebec at Montreal. He has spent much of his adult life studying the people, politics and history of Southeast Asia, particularly Thailand, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam. He studied at Georgetown University and the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (IVome Section, La Sorbonne). He has written extensively about many of the different regions of Indo-China.
For those who have wanted a distinct and comprehensive overview of
Vietnam's history, this is it. Christopher Goscha has an eye for
how history connects through generations and how a country can rise
from disasters in a new form, without losing sight of its past
*Odd Arne Westad, author of Restless Empire: China and the World
Since 1750*
A splendid achievement. Christopher Goscha is one of our leading
historians of modern Vietnam, and he shows it in this nuanced,
fair-minded, deeply humane book. Destined to be a standard work on
the subject
*Fredrik Logevall, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Embers of War:
The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America’s Vietnam*
Powerful and compelling. Vietnam will be of growing importance in
the twenty-first-century world, particularly as China and the US
rethink their roles in Asia. Christopher Goscha's book is a
brilliant account of that country's history. Paying careful
attention to Vietnamese voices as well as those of colonizers, he
constructs a narrative that sets Vietnam in context, and makes it
for western readers so much more than a half-remembered event in
the Cold War
*Rana Mitter*
A perceptive and much needed contribution to our understanding of
Vietnam. Christopher Goscha's prodigious research is equaled only
by his intimate understanding of Vietnamese culture, people, and
history
*Larry Berman, author of Perfect Spy: The Incredible Double Life of
Pham Xuan An, Time Magazine Reporter and Vietnamese Communist
Agent*
A vigorous, eye-opening account of a country of great importance to
the world, past and future.
*Kirkus Reviews*
Challenges myths, and raises questions about the socialist
republic's political future... groundbreaking... Goscha manages the
(not easy) task of showing Vietnam's complexity without losing the
reader with too much detail... quite simply the finest, most
readable single-volume history of Vietnam in English'
*Guardian*
Mr. Goscha is one of the most talented and prolific of a new group
of American and French historians who have examined the modern
history of Vietnam not in regard to the country's relationship to
the U.S. or the Cold War but on its own terms... a concise,
insightful and readable guide to the complexity and variety of
Vietnam's modern history
*Wall St Journal*
Represents a milestone in Vietnamese history... [Goscha] is his
generation's pre-eminent academic historian of modern
Vietnam...Goscha's approach must be seen as a monumental step
forward in efforts to make sense of the fundamental political
fissures that plunged Vietnam into one of the longest and bloodiest
civil wars of the twentieth century.
*Mekong Review*
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