Lentz, Christian C., <br/><br/>
Contested territory :  Điện Biên Phu̓ and the making of northwest Vietnam / 
 Điện Biên Phu̓ and the making of northwest Vietnam 
Christian C. Lentz. 
 - New Haven :  Yale University Press,  (c)2019. 
 - 1 online resource (xvi, 331 pages) :  illustrations, maps. 
 - Yale Agrarian studies series .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>"Vast area, sparse people" --  Vietnam on the march --  Anxious economies --  Điện Biên Phủ and the logistics of territory --  Struggles at Điện Biên Phủ --  Revolutionary alternatives. 
<br/><br/> The definitive account of one of the most important battles of the twentieth century, and the Black River borderlands' transformation into Northwest Vietnam This new work of historical and political geography ventures beyond the conventional framing of the Battle of Điện Biên Phủ, the 1954 conflict that toppled the French empire in Indochina. Tracking a longer period of anticolonial revolution and nation-state formation from 1945 to 1960, Christian Lentz argues that a Vietnamese elite constructed territory as a strategic form of rule. Engaging newly available archival sources, Lentz offers a novel conception of territory as a contingent outcome of spatial contests. 
<br/><br/>
<br/><br/> Harry J. Benda Prize, 2021 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780300245585 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Indochinese War, 1946-1954--Territorial questions.<br/>Dien Bien Phu, Battle of, Điện Biên Phủ, Vietnam, 1954.<br/>Territory, National--History--Vietnam--20th century.<br/>Jurisdiction, Territorial--History--Vietnam--20th century.<br/>Decolonization--History--Vietnam--20th century.<br/>Regionalism--Vietnam.<br/>Political geography.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>DS560  / .C668 2019 DS559