ATTEMPTS TO LEGITIMIZE POLITICAL POWER IN THE CENTRAL HIGHLANDS FROM THE COLONIAL TO THE POST-COLONIAL PERIOD
The Central Highlands were, until the early twentieth century, a sparsely populated and poorly developed area with limited contact with the outside world, inhabited by a multitude of diverse ethnic groups (Nguyen, 2019, tr. 5). In this "wilderness", various actors from outside interfered i...
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| Language: | English |
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Dalat University
2019-09-01
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| Series: | Tạp chí Khoa học Đại học Đà Lạt |
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| Online Access: | http://tckh.dlu.edu.vn/index.php/tckhdhdl/article/view/565 |
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| Summary: | The Central Highlands were, until the early twentieth century, a sparsely populated and poorly developed area with limited contact with the outside world, inhabited by a multitude of diverse ethnic groups (Nguyen, 2019, tr. 5). In this "wilderness", various actors from outside interfered in, or even invaded, this strategically important area - first the Cham people and Champa feudal dynasties, then the empire of Vietnam, the French colonial power, the Viet Minh (and their successors), and finally the South Vietnamese State and the United States of America. In this work, in addition to some common theories on legitimate domination, the author tries to apply several national perspectives to explain each player’s attempts in legitimizing and stabilizing their control over the Central Highlands from the French colonial period until Vietnam was entirely independent and united in 1975. |
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| ISSN: | 0866-787X 0866-787X |