"This study is a preliminary step toward a more systematic analysis of the standard dynastic histories and other sources, with a focus on the region called Cochinchina and its connections with nearby territories. I note that Champa remained a viable political entity after 1471 and the Mạc Dynasty controlled extensive parts of the southern territories, even after their defeat in Đông Kinh c. 1596. Thus, control of the south by Nguyễn rulers was a gradual and complex affair, not to be reduced to family rivalries and not decisively inaugurated in 1558. Political and economic concern with the coast was no more important than control over production centers in the highland interior. These findings help refute the “Southern Push” model of Vietnamese expansion, indicating that it was not a thousand-year long process, did not involve the steady displacement of indigenous peoples, and did not focus exclusively on agrarian resources. There was not a purely north-south trajectory for political integration, and control of east-west rivers connecting the coast and the middle Mekong was no less important than control of the coast itself. Although historians have long focused on key dates and events in the dynastic chronicles, many of these are less obvious watersheds than they recognize."--Author note.
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Pt. 1. Introduction : the construction of Vietnamese historical identities / Nhung Tuyet Tran, Anthony Reid. Research on the Vietnamese village : assessment and perspectives / Phan Huy Le -- pt. 2. Construction Viet against a Han world. Le Van Huu and Ngo Si Lien : a comparison of their perception of Vietnamese history / Yu Insun -- Chinese gunpowder technology and Dai Viet, ca. 1390-1497 / Sun Laichen -- Beyond the myth of equality : daughters' inheritance rights in the Le Code / Nhung Tuyet Tran -- pt. 3. Southern pluralities. The Eighteenth-century Mekong Delta and its world of water frontier / Li Tana -- One region, two histories : Cham precedents in the history of the Hoi An region / Charles Wheeler -- Transnationalism and multiethnicity in the early Nguyen Anh Gia Long period / Wynn Wilcox -- pt. 4. Rediscovering Vietnamese- European encounters. Crossing oceans, crossing boundaries : the remarkable life of Philiphe Binh (1759-1832) / George Dutton -- Strangers in a foreign land : Vietnamese soldiers and workers in France during World War I / Kimloan Hill -- Recasting Pigneau de Behaine : missionaries and the politics of French colonial history, 1894-1914 / James P. Daughton.

"Crossing borders and exploring ambiguities, the essays in Việt Nam: Borderless Histories draw on international archives and bring a range of ... analytical approaches to the global, regional, national and local narratives of Vietnamese history. Among the topics explored are the extraordinary diversity between north and south, lowland and highland, Việt and minority, and between colonial, Chinese, Southeast Asian, and dynastic influences."--Page 4 of cover.

Online access via Gleeson Library.
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