1. Colonialism & Nationalism in Vietnam
Indochina
Tonkin, Annam, Cochinchina
Creating an export economy
The Mekong Delta & Rice
Rubber, coal
Landlords & land distribution
Corvée labor
Infrastructure: roads, railway, etc.

2. Vietnamese Nationalism
Education
The University of Hanoi
The Dong Kinh Free School
Phan Chu Trinh
Phan Bội Châu
The West & Reform
quốc ngữ
Literacy & Revolution

3. Vietnamese Nationalism

4. Violence, Repression & Modern Nationalism
French Repression & Imprisonment:
The Sureté
The Colonial Prison: laboratory for revolution
: c. 10,000 prisoners
Con Son Island
The Thai Nguyen Rebellion, 1917

5. The Education of Ho Chi Minh
World War I
The Great Depression
The Lessons?

6. Independence & the Vietnamese Revolution
Ho Chi Minh
The Viet Minh
The Vietnamese Declaration of Independence, 1945