Christopher Gosha

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Christopher E. Goscha (born June 7, 1965 in Wichita , Kansas ) is an American historian. He has worked at the Université du Québec à Montréal ("UQAM") since 2005 , where he is Associate Professor of International Relations and Southeast Asian History.

He published numerous writings on cultural, social, political and diplomatic aspects of the French colony of Indochina , the Indochina War , the Vietnam War , the Cambodian War and other conflicts in this region.

He studied at Georgetown University (School of Foreign Service), the Australian National University , the University of Paris VII and at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales , where he obtained his PhD . In his dissertation, he looked at the Indochina War from a transnational perspective, "since the Franco-Vietnamese War (1945-1954) cannot be understood without placing it in a broader Asian context" was his historical account of the development towards modern Vietnam described by the Guardian as the best present history of Vietnam.

Awards

  • 2017: John K. Fairbank Prize for Vietnam: A New History
  • 2017: Cundill Prize (Recognition of Excellence Prize) for Vietnam: A New History
  • 2019: Elected member of the Royal Society of Canada

Works (selection)

  • The Penguin History of Modern Vietnam , Penguin / Random House, London, 2016
    • Vietnam, A New History , Basic Books, New York, 2016
  • Historical Dictionary of the Indochina War (1945-1954): An International and Interdisciplinary Approach , University of Hawaii / NIAS (Nordic Institute of Asian Studies), Copenhagen, 2011
  • Vietnam, Un Etat né de la guerre , Armand Colin, Paris, 2011
  • Going Indochinese: Contesting Concepts of Space and Place in French Indochina , Nias Classics (Paperback, 2nd revised edition), 2012, ISBN 978-8776940997
  • Thailand and the Southeast Asian Networks of the Vietnamese Revolution (1885-1954) , Psychology Press, 1999
    • Thailand and the Southeast Asian Networks of the Vietnamese Revolution (1885-1954) , Routledge (Paperback 1st ed.), 2016, ISBN 978-1138988736

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Title: Le contexte asiatique de la guerre franco-vietnamienne: Réseaux, relations et économie (1945-1954) , published in English in 1999.
  2. Summary of the thesis in the Sudoc catalog, accessed on February 2, 2018
  3. Guardian review on October 8, 2016, accessed February 3, 2018
  4. ^ Class of 2019 / Promotion 2019. Royal Society of Canada / Société royale du Canada, accessed September 10, 2019 .
  5. slightly changed version of 'Penguin History of Vietnam'
  6. Review ( French )
  7. books.google.de