WINNER OF THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION'S JOHN K. FAIRBANK PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE CUNDHILL HISTORY PRIZE 2017 'This is the finest single-volume history

Keith explores the complex position of the Catholic Church in modern Vietnamese history. Much like the revolutionary ideologies and struggles in the name of the

The definitive history of modern Vietnam and its diverse and divided past

Examines the rise of anti-Catholic hostility in early 19th-century Vietnam under the Nguyen dynasty. Focusing on - but not limited to - the Cochinchina region,

Most monumental buildings of France’s global empire – such as the famous Saigon and Hanoi Opera Houses – were built in South and Southeast Asia. Much of t