Pierre Asselin: 5 books
Vietnam's American War
A History
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
Communist forces in the Vietnam War lost most battles and suffered disproportionally higher casualties than the United States and its allies throughout the conflict. The ground war in South Vietnam and the air war in the North were certainly important in shaping the fates of the victors and losers,...
A Bitter Peace
Washington, Hanoi, and the Making of the Paris Agreement
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2003
Demonstrating the centrality of diplomacy in the Vietnam War, Pierre Asselin traces the secret negotiations that led up to the Paris Agreement of 1973, which ended America's involvement but failed to bring peace in Vietnam. Because the two sides signed the agreement under duress, he argues, the peace...
by Pierre Asselin
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2013
Hanoi's Road to the Vietnam War opens in 1954 with the signing of the Geneva accords that ended the eight-year-long Franco-Indochinese War and created two Vietnams. In agreeing to the accords, Ho Chi Minh and other leaders of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam anticipated a new period of peace leading...
by Jean-Pierre Asselin de Beauville
Language: French
Release Date: February 3, 2012
Language: French
Release Date: February 3, 2012
Il était une fois... tout là-bas dans la forêt très loin du quotidien mais si réelle, un gros mammouth, si gros et si malodorant que sa rencontre avec Isaac et Xavier est baignée à la fois d'émotion et de lutte contre lui-même et beaucoup d'"a priori"... Il était une fois... tout...
Vodou in Haitian Memory
The Idea and Representation of Vodou in Haitian Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
Throughout Haitian history—from 17th century colonial Saint-Domingue to 21st century postcolonial Haiti—arguably, the Afro-Haitian religion of Vodou has been represented as an “unsettling faith” and a “cultural paradox,” as expressed in various forms and modes of Haitian thought and life...