Armand di Biencourt, Au Tonkin, 1884-1885-1886. Paris: Imprimerie générale Lahure, 1898. 81 pp.
Mark Philip Bradley, Imagining Vietnam and America: The Making of Postcolonial Vietnam, 1919–1950. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000. xiv, 304 pp.
Pierre Brocheux, The Mekong Delta: Ecology, Economy, and Revolution, 1860–1960. Madison: Center for Southeast Asian Studies, University of Wisconsin, 1995. xix, 269 pp.
Pierre Brocheux and Daniel Hémery, Indochine: La colonisation ambiguë, 1858–1954. Paris: Découverte, 1994. 427 pp. Rev. ed. Paris: Découverte, 2001. 447 pp. English translation Indochina: An Ambiguous Colonization, 1858-1954. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010 (forthcoming). 507 pp.
Joseph Buttinger, The Smaller Dragon: A Political History of Vietnam. New York: Praeger, 1958. 535 pp. Basically a history of Vietnam from the origins up to the French conquest, with a brief summary of events from 1900 to 1957 tacked onto the end. The full text is available online to paid subscribers of Questia.
Joseph Buttinger, Vietnam: A Dragon Embattled, 2 vols. New York: Praeger, 1967. 1346 pp. A history of Vietnam from the French conquest to the death of Ngo Dinh Diem.
Joseph Buttinger, Vietnam: A Political History. New York: Praeger, 1968. 565 pp. Basically a condensation of the two previous items, with a chapter added bringing the story up to 1968.
Joseph Buttinger, A Dragon Defiant: A Short History of Vietnam. New York: Praeger, 1972. 147 pp.
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Oscar Chapuis, The Last Emperors of Vietnam: From Tu