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Violence, political legitimacy, and military masculinity during the decolonization of French Vietnam, 1944--1954.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Violence, political legitimacy, and military masculinity during the decolonization of French Vietnam, 1944--1954./
Author:	Anklin, Michael Philipp.
Description:	322 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 75-02(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International75-02A(E).
Subject:	History, Modern. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3599139
ISBN:	9781303482892

Violence, political legitimacy, and military masculinity during the decolonization of French Vietnam, 1944--1954.
Anklin, Michael Philipp.

Violence, political legitimacy, and military masculinity during the decolonization of French Vietnam, 1944--1954. - 322 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 75-02(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, 2013.

My dissertation seeks to establish the French war in Vietnam as one of the most important historical events from which different forms of political violence emerged after 1945. I argue that conceptions of political legitimacy and their connections to different forms of political violence played a central role in the conflict in Vietnam following World War II. Sources show that many French leaders and combatants believed that after the humiliating French defeat against Nazi Germany in 1940, France's war against the communist Vietminh presented an opportunity to restore French national grandeur and confirm the continued aptitude and virility of French soldiers. With such concerns in mind, French propagandists decried Vietminh violence as barbaric and thus illegitimate, but insisted that supposedly heroic, manly French soldiers used violence only as a legitimate last resort to protect the indigenous population from the Vietminh. Eventually, neither Vietminh massacres nor French military superiority and propaganda could diminish the status of Ho Chi Minh's forces as the only legitimate national independence movement in Vietnam. Even many Vietnamese who did not support the Vietminh continued to view French troops and colonial authorities as an illegitimate foreign presence, whose soldiers and police agents often employed excessive force as gratuitously as the Vietminh did. Frustrated with these developments, French military strategists began conceptualizing counterinsurgency techniques aimed at enemy soldiers as well as civilians. Yet, increased violence neither won the war for the French, nor did it help reestablish the legitimacy of their presence in Vietnam. The French would later apply these exact techniques in Algeria; the U.S. would make use of them in Vietnam; and Latin American juntas would utilize them against their own citizens. Thus, France's attempt in Vietnam to reassert its national greatness and military prowess had global consequences for decades to come.

ISBN: 9781303482892Subjects--Topical Terms:

516334
History, Modern.

Violence, political legitimacy, and military masculinity during the decolonization of French Vietnam, 1944--1954.
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