Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Note on Text
Abbreviations
Map of Indochina, 1945

Introduction

PART I: THE EXTERNAL AND DOMESTIC PARAMETERS OF COLONIAL POLICY MAKING

Chapter 1. The Brazzaville Conference and its Origins, 1940-1944: Policy Formulation and Myth Making on the Congo
Chapter 2. The Republic Strikes Back, 1944-1945: Brazzaville Policy and the Metropolitan Critique
Chapter 3. 'We are in the Midst of Colonial Crisis': The Response to International and Colonial Change
Chapter 4. The Domestic Parameters of Colonial Policy Making after the Liberation, 1944-1946

PART II: POLICY MAKING IN INDOCHINA AND ITS BREAKDOWN, 1945-1947

Chapter 5. Calculating the Stakes: Brazzaville Policy and the 'Return' to Indochina, December 1943-September 1945
Chapter 6. The Primacy of Action: From the 'Return' to Saigon, October 1945, to the Signing of the Accords of 6 March 1946
Chapter 7. Who Rules: Paris or Saigon? The Dalat Conference and the Cochinchina Policy, March-June 1946
Chapter 8. 'A Round of the Battle we are Fighting': The Fontainebleau Conference, June-Septe,ber 1946
Chapter 9. The Narrowing of French Policy Options, Autumn 1946: The Accords Policy Abandoned?
Chapter 10. 'The Tonkin Vespers', December 1946: Burying the Accords Policy

Conclusion

Appendix I: The Administrative Structure of the French Empire, 1945
Appendix II: Chronology of Events in France and Indochina, 1944-1947

Bibliography
Index