The Colonial Bastille: A History of Imprisonment in Vietnam, 1862-1940
Peter Zinoman
Abstract
This book focuses on the colonial prison system in French Indochina and its role in fostering modern political consciousness among the Vietnamese. Using prison memoirs, newspaper articles, and extensive archival records, the book presents a wealth of significant new information to document how colonial prisons, rather than quelling political dissent and maintaining order, instead became institutions that promoted nationalism and revolutionary education.
Keywords: colonial prisons, French Indochina, political consciousness, prison memoirs, newspaper articles, archival records, nationalism, revolutionary education
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2001 | Print ISBN-13: 9780520224124 |
| Published to California Scholarship Online: March 2012 | DOI:10.1525/california/9780520224124.001.0001 |
