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Literature on the History of South East Asia |
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In 1887, France created the Indochinese Union (French Indochina) out of her
colonies and protectorates in South East Asia, viz. French Cochinchina (since 1863),
Cambodia (since 1863), French Annam (since 1885),
French Tonkin (since 1885).
Laos was to join in 1893, Gwangzhouwan
(alternative spellings Kouang Tcheou Wan, Kwangchowan, a port located in the Chinese province of
Guangdong) was associated 1898-1946. From 1940 to 1944 the area was only nominally under French rule; Japan exercised real control, from 1944 to 1945 also in its own name. Following the Japanese surrender the campaign of regional Communist organizations for independence began. French control of the major cities was restored by 1946-1947. French Tonkin, French Annam and French Cochinchina were united to form Vietnam (either as the Democratic Republic of Vietnam 1945-1954 as the Viet Minh wanted to have it, or as the Associated State of Vietnam under Emperor Bao Dai, which the French supported). The crushing defeat in the Battle of Dien Bien Phu 1954 caused France to withdraw from Indochina. French Indochina was partitioned in the Kingdoms of Cambodia, Laos, the Empire of (South) Vietnam (monarchy abolished in 1955) and the Democratic Republic of (North) Vietnam. For the history of Cambodia, Luang Prabang, Champassak, Viangchan, prior to French Rule, click the individual country ; for the history of Cochinchina 1802-1863, Annam and Tonkin 1802-1885 see Vietnam 1802-1885 Timeline : French Indochina Historical Atlas : French Indochina Page |
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DIRECTORY OF INTERNET SOURCES . . . EXTERNAL FILES |
Country Profiles | Current |
Article : French Indochina, from Wikipedia Article : Indochina française, from Wikipedia French edition |
Historic |
Links |
Category : French Indochina, from Wikipedia Categorie : Indochine française, from Wikipedia French edition From Indochine Souvenir |
Historical Dictionary |
Portals |
Indochine Française 1858-1954 (Indochine Souvenir), in French |
Timelines |
Cartotheque et Chronologie, from
Dossier Indochine by Academie Rheims |
Accounts of History | General |
Sanderson Beck, Vietnam and the French 1800-1950 |
Specific Periods / Events |
1941-1945. Indochina at the Crossroads, by
Thomas Beamish E.J.J. Diquet, Annam et Indo-Chine française: I. Esquisse de l'histoire annamite. II. Role de la France en Indo .. (1903) in French, posted on Internet Archive |
Military |
Brigade Française d'Indochine S.R., from
Amis de la Madeleine Franco-Thai Conflict in WW 2, from Weird Wars |
Economy & Finances |
Articles French Indochinese Piastre, from Wikipedia Economic Statistics on Vietnam during its Colonial Period, by J.P. Bassino Article : Banque de l'Indochine, from Wikipedia French edition |
Religion |
Chronology of Catholic Dioceses :
Cambodia, Laos,
Vietnam, from Kirken i Norge Buddhism in Vietnam, by Jeff Barlow, from Wikipedia Buddhism in Cambodia, from Wikipedia Buddhism in Laos, from Wikipedia Islam in Cambodia, from Wikipedia |
History of Regions |
see under History of French Annam, French Cochinchina,
French Tonkin (Tongking), Cambodia, Laos |
Local History |
History of Saigon, from Yahoo Travel;
from HVVT, from
Wikipedia History of Hue, from Wikipedia History of Hanoi, from Wikipedia History of Haiphong, from Wikipedia History of Phnom Penh, from Wikipedia History of Vientiane, from Wikipedia |
Institutions |
History of the Ecole Francaise d"Extreme Orient, from IIAS Trolleys in French Indochina : Hanoi, Saigon, from Tram Views of Asia Indo-China, from Airline History |
DIRECTORY OF INTERNET SOURCES . . . EXTERNALLY POSTED DOCUMENTS |
Historical Data | Lists of Statesmen |
from World Statesmen (B. Cahoon);
from Rulers (B. Schemmel), scroll down |
Population Figures |
Historical Population Statistics, Cambodia,
Laos,
Vietnam, UUtrecht |
Documents | Historical Newspapers | Official Gazettes |
Bulletin officiel de l'Indochine française
1889, Gallica |
Staatskalender |
Annuaire general de l'Indo-Chine française 1901-1925, Gallica |
Newsreels |
Archives Audiovisuelles de la Recherche British Pathe Wochenschau-Archiv (in German) Archief Beeld en Geluid : Polygoon (in Dutch) ECPAD Videos : Fonds de Guerre d'Indochine |
Image Databanks |
Systematic Collections General |
Archives nationales d'outre-mer, Base Ulysse, image base |
Systematic Collections Specialist |
Philippe Millour, Photos d'Indochine : L'Indochine en 1930-1940 |
Accidental Collections |
Category : French Indochina, from
Wikimedia Commons |
Oriental Collections Items on French Indochina |
Universal Collections Items on French Indochina |
French Indochina, from License Plate Online (Image of car license plate) Historic Picture Postcards : Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, from Postcardman, commercial site Belle CPA : Cartes Postales d'Indochine, commercial site |
Video Documentaries |
Search INA for Indochine |
Archival Deposits |
Search Janus Search ARCHIEVEN.NL Search New Zealand Electronic Text Centre |
Constitutions, Laws |
Treaties |
Indochina - Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos, Documents 1950-1964, from
Avalon Project at Yale Law School |
Document Collections |
Foreign Office (British) : Peace Handbooks (1919-1920), posted on Internet Archive;
v.13 Persian Gulf : French and Portuguese possessions in Asia, no. 76-81 Indochine : Documents, from Academie Rheims Yosuke Matsuoka Japan's Foreign Minister's Address at Opening of Thai-French Indo-China Border Dispute Mediation Conference, Tokyo, February 7, 1941, from Words of Peace, Words of War Exchange of Letters between the French Ambassador, Charles Arsene-Henry and Yosuke Matsuoka, Japanese Foreign Minister, March 11 1941, from Words of Peace, Words of War Mediation Terms of the Thai-French Indo-China Border Dispute, March 11, 1941, from Words of Peace, Words of War Acting Secretary of State Sumner Welles' Statement on Japanese-French Collaboration in Indochina, July 24, 1941, from Words of Peace, Words of War Agrement between Japan and France Pledging Military Co-Operation in Defense of Indo-China, Tokyo, July 29, 1941, from Words of Peace, Words of War Statement by Japanese Board of Information on "Reinforcing Japanese Forces in Indo-China", Tokyo, August 1, 1941, from Words of Peace, Words of War President Dwight D. Eisenhower's Press Conference on Indochina: Statement of the Domino Thesis, 1954. from McGraw-Hill Final Declaration of the Geneva Conference on the Problem of Restoring Peace in Indochina, July 21, 1954 and the United States' Statement of Unilateral Dissent. from McGraw-Hill |
Historical Maps | collections |
see here Cartotheque et Chronologie, from Dossier Indochine by Academie Rheims Canby Publications, Cambodia : Historical Map Index Historical Maps Archive : Historical Maps of Indo-China Indochine Souvenir : Cartes |
Links |
Belle Indochine, Cartes |
French Indochina, Modern |
Map of French Indochina 1859-1939, J. de Salas Vara del Rey Atlas historique : L'expansion coloniale fran?ise en Indochine (1859-1907), La guerre d'Indochine (1946-1954) Indochina, ethnolinguistic groups, 1970, PCL, UTexas Indochina 1939, 1945, 1949, 1993, J. de Salas Vara del Rey |
French Indochina, Contemporary |
Canby Publications, French Indochina 1913 French Indo-China 1922, from Probert Encyclopedia Cosmovisions, Carte de l'Indochine française, Vidal la Blache c.1910 |
Detail, Modern |
Detail, Contemporary |
Shutterstock, Saigon 1860 Annam 1906, 1938, Cambodia 1922, 1932, 1938, Tong-King 1906, from Probert Encyclopedia Cosmovisions, Cochinchine française, Tonkin, Vidal la Blache c.1910 |
Historical Encyclopedia Entries |
Secular |
Articles Kambodscha,
Anam,
Tongking,
Kotschinchina,
from Meyers Konversationslexikon 1885-1892, in German, posted by Retro Bibliothek Article French Indo-China, Saigon, Laos, Cochin-China, Cambodia, Tongking, Annam, from EB 1911 |
Religious |
Article Indo-China, from Catholic Encyclopedia, 1910 edition |
Economic |
Geographical |
French Indochina pp.252-255 in J. MacFarlane,
Economic geography, c. 1910, GB |
Historical |
Other |
Article : Französische Kolonien,
from Röll, Enzyklopädie des Eisenbahnwesens (Encyclopedia of Railroads) 2nd ed. 1912-1923, in German;
scroll down for Französisch Indo-China |
Parliamentary Debates |
Hansard (British Parliament) |
Tour Guides, Travelogues |
Madrolle, Guide du voyageur: Indo-Chine, Canal de Suez,
Djibouti et Harar, Indes Françaises, 1902, in French, IA |
Institutions | Archives |
Archives Nationales d'Outremer (France) |
Official Symbols | Flags, Coats of Arms |
Flag, from FOTW;
from Flags of French Asian & Near Eastern Territories : Far East |
Coins, Banknotes |
Banknotes of French Indochina from World Currency Museum;
of French Indochina
from Ron Wise's World Paper Money; from Numismatic Image
Gallery; Indochine Paper Notes, posted by Thuan D. Luc Coins and banknotes from Vietnam and French Indochina, from Art Hanoi, from Coin Pictures 1892-1943, scroll down |
PRINTED REFERENCE |
Bibliographies | general |
Datenbasis Internationale Beziehungen und Länderkunde
(Data Base on International Relations and Country Studies) (site in German, most titles listed in English;
numerous entries; publications mostly since 1970) RHS Bibliography UK National Archive Online Library ISBN Database |
on French Indochina |
Sources for the Study of French Indochina, from
Univ. of Washington Library, bibliography |
Online Libraries | general |
Google Books;
Internet Archives;
Gutenberg Library Online;
HathiTrust;
e-corpus Gallica Center for Research Libraries (CRL) International Boundary Studies, search for Thailand Search DBNG for Indochina etc. |
Online Libraries |
ISEAS Working Papers, Back Issues 2000-2003 |
Online Journals |
Bulletin de l'Ecole française d'Extreme-Orient
1991-2003 Southeast Asian Studies 1963-, mostly in Japanese Explorations, 1997- Graduate Student Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, CSEAS, Univ. of Hawaii |
General Accounts |
Nicholas Tarling, The Cambridge History of Southeast Asia, 4 vol.s, Cambridge : UP (1992) 1999, KMLA Lib.Sign. 959 T188c Stanley Karnow, Vietnam : a History, Penguin (1985) 1991, KMLA Lib.Sign. 959.704 K18v |
Specific Topics |
Pham Quoc Su, Negative Consequences caused by Japanese Fascism in Vietnam
(in the Second World War), pp.138-154 in : Korean Society for Western History (ed.), Modern History as Described in
Japanese Histoy Textbooks and Basic Direction of History Education, Seoul 2005 |
Historical Dictionaries |
William J. Duiker, Historical Dictionary of Vietnam, Metuchen NJ : Scarecrow 1989, 269 pp. [G] M. Stuart Fox, Historical Dictionary of Laos, Metuchen NJ : Scarecrow 1992 [G] J. Corfield, Historical Dictionary of Cambodia, Lanham Md. : Scarecrow 2003 |
Historical Atlasses |
Jan M. Pluvier, Historical Atlas of Southeast Asia, Leiden : Brill 1995 [G] |
Statistical Data |
IHS : B.R. Mitchell, International Historical Statistics. Africa, Asia & Oceania 1750-2000, London : Palgrave 2003 [G] |
Yearbook Entries | Britannica Book of the Year |
(French) Indo-China, 1913 p.1007, French Colonial Empire : Indo-China, 1946 pp.329-330, 1947 pp.344-345,
French Overseas Territories : Indo-China, 1948 pp.330-331, 1949 pp.289-290, French Union, 1950 pp.305-308,
Indochina, 1951 pp.363-364, 1952 pp.357-358, 1953 pp.357-358, 1954 pp.356-357, 1955 pp.405-407 [G] |
Statesman's Year-Book |
French Indo-China, 1895 pp.508-510, 1898 pp.506-508, 1901 pp.580-583, 1905 pp.638-643, 1910 pp.784-789, 1918 pp.844-848,
1919 pp.849-853, 1924 pp.889-895, 1925 pp.900-906, 1926 pp.873-878,
1928 pp.887-893, 1929 pp.875-880, 1932 pp.877-882, 1937 pp.916-923, 1943 pp.902-910 [G] |
(New) Int'l Yearbook |
French Indo-China, 1898 pp.428-429, 1899 pp.441-442, 1900 pp.477-478, 1914 p.274, 1916 p.249, 1918 pp.232-233,
1919 pp.272-273, 1920 pp.260-261, 1921 p.260, 1923 pp.266-267,
1925 p.261, 1928 p.277, 1930 p.289, 1932 pp.304-305, 1933 pp.289-290, 1934 pp.252-253, 1935 pp.259-260, 1938 p.271,
1939 p.293, 1940 pp.290-292, 1941 pp.223-225, 1942 pp.267-268, 1943 p.228, 1944 pp.239-240, 1945 pp.223-227 [G] |
Americana Annual | French Indo-China, 1927 p.364, 1928 pp.323-324, 1930 p.341, 1931 p.338, 1932 pp.307-308, 1933 p.336, 1934 p.265, 1935 p.307, 1936 p.312, 1937 p.306, 1938 p.298, 1939 p.322, French Indochina, 1940 p.323, 1943 p.308, 1944 pp.295-296, 1945 pp.304-305, 1946 pp.307-308, 1947 pp.274-275 |
Other |
Article : French Indo-China, in : Funk & Wagnall's New Standard Encyclopedia Year Book 1932 pp.271-272, 1933 p.227, 1934 pp.250-251,
1935 p.242, 1936 p.214, 1937 pp.216-217, 1938 pp.223-224, 1939 pp.237-238, 1940 pp.256-258, 1941 pp.208-210, 1942 pp.184-185,
1943 pp.186-187, 1944 pp.128-130 [G] |