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United States. --- History --- 1900-1999 --- Indochina --- Vietnam --- Indochina. --- Vietnam.

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Olov Janse was an archaeologist with a remarkable life. From his birth in Sweden 1892 to his death in the United States 1985, he travelled several times across the world and was present in some of the most important episodes of 20th century world history. His works and networks connected museums and political institutions in Sweden, France, Vietnam and the United States: from the Swedish History Museum, the Museum of Far Easter Antiquities, the French Musée d’antiquites nationales, the Cernuchi museum, and the French research institute EFEO in Hanoi, to UNESCO, the Harvard Peabody Museum, the Smithsonian Institution, and the U.S. Department of State. He left behind artefacts and documents in museum collections and archives across the world. But his name is largely unknown, and his most important contributions – the connection of people and ideas between continents and contexts – have remained invisible in historical accounts of all these institutions. He was, in every sense, an archaeologist in-between. This book follows in the footsteps of Olov Janse and his wife Renée, as they move between continents and contexts, connecting key actors and institutions in social and professional networks across the world. It tells the formidable story of an archaeologist navigating through world politics, from a late 19th century industrial town in Sweden, to early 20th century Parisian museums, to French Indochina and the Philippines in the 1930s, to the formation of UNESCO in 1946, and ending with public diplomacy for the U.S. Department of State at the verge of the Vietnam War.

Women archaeologists. --- Archaeologists --- Olov Janse --- UNESCO --- Archaeology --- OSS --- History museums --- Indochina

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Marek Thee was a Jewish Polish journalist, scholar, and activist. This book tells his life from narrowly escaping death in the Holocaust to exile in Palestine, where he became attached to the Polish consular service. On his return to Poland in 1950, he worked for the Foreign Ministry and later for the Polish Institute for International Affairs. He served as Head of the Polish delegation to the International Control Commission in Indochina in the late 1950s. In 1968 he lost his job and his Polish citizenship in a nationalistic and antisemitic campaign. He was able to move to Norway where he worked for twenty years at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO), editing an international quarterly journal, Bulletin of Peace Proposals and doing research on the arms race. In retirement, he continued his research and writing at the Norwegian Human Rights Institute. The book vividly relates the drama of his life in Poland, Palestine, Indochina, and Norway. This is an open access book.

Political science & theory --- International relations --- History --- Development studies --- Human rights --- The Holocaust --- Palestine --- The Indochina wars --- Poland under communism --- Peace research --- Military research and development --- The arms race --- Disarmament and development --- Anti-semitism

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"Weaving together environmental and social history, David Biggs offers an innovative history of the impact of war on central Vietnam in the long twentieth century, from the imposition of French colonial rule in 1885 to the end of American military involvement in 1973. The long history of conflict around the city of Huế produced belts of degraded lands and village societies deeply marred by the demands of war or periods of conflict. Once military units occupy a space, they change it in physical, legal, and cultural terms so that even long after the troopers leave, their footprints continue to shape patterns of land use and local memories of place. There are tombs, cemeteries, and war monuments; and there are the spaces in between, the subterrains of "wilderness" haunted by ghostlike presences of suspected chemical or munitions hazards. Digging below the surface, one risks being maimed by unexploded ordnance, getting ill from toxic chemical residues, or perhaps worst of all, being haunted by the ghosts of war dead who died violently or did not receive proper burials. Critical to this study are previously little used archives of maps and images created by technologies developed at the same time as the Indochinese wars, 1945 to 1975: aerial photography, high-altitude photography, satellite photography, and satellite-based, multi-band scanning. In this richly illustrated book, author David Biggs uses these new kinds of imagery to reveal the impact of war in the land"--

Vietnam, Central --- History, Military --- Environmental conditions. --- Central Vietnam --- Miền Trung (Vietnam) --- Trung Bộ (Vietnam) --- Trung Kì (Vietnam) --- Trung Kỳ (Vietnam) --- Trung Phần (Vietnam) --- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 --- Indochinese War, 1946-1954 --- War --- Environmental aspects --- Armed conflict (War) --- Conflict, Armed (War) --- Fighting --- Hostilities --- Wars --- International relations --- Military art and science --- Indochina War, 1946-1954 --- Vietnam Conflict, 1961-1975 --- Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 --- Vietnamese War, 1961-1975 --- Military history: post-WW2 conflicts

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This book, connecting the fields of social anthropology and missiology, presents a body of colonial ethnographic writing applied to highland societies in the southern portion of the Mainland Southeast Asian massif. The writers under scrutiny are Catholic priests from the Société des Missions Étrangères de Paris. Their texts from the Upper-Tonkin vicariate, in today's northern Vietnam, are paid special attention, notably through its major contributor, F.M. Savina. The author locates this ethnographic heritage against its historical, political and intellectual background. A comparison is conducted with French missionaries-cum-ethnographers who worked among the 'natives' in New France (Canada) in the 17th century, yielding the unexpected conclusion that practically nothing from this early period of experimentation was remembered.

Missions, French --- Ethnology. --- Ethnology --- 266 <59> --- French missions --- Cultural anthropology --- Ethnography --- Races of man --- Social anthropology --- Anthropology --- Human beings --- Missies. Evangelisatie. Zending--Zuid-Oost Azië.Indochina --- Vietnam, Northern --- Bắc Bộ (Vietnam) --- Bắc Kì (Vietnam) --- Bắc Kỳ (Vietnam) --- Bắc Phần (Vietnam) --- Miền Bắc (Vietnam) --- Northern Vietnam --- History. --- Etnografie. --- Geschiedbronnen. --- Missie. --- Ethnologie. --- Missions françaises --- Ethnologie --- Katholische Kirche. --- Mission --- Mission. --- Völkerkunde. --- Geschichte --- Katholische Kirche --- Catholic Church --- Missions --- Viêt-nam (Nord) --- Tonkin. --- Tonking --- Yunnan (provincie) --- Histoire. --- Missions, French - Vietnam. --- Humanities --- Christian mission & evangelism