The colonial Bastille : a history of imprisonment in Vietnam, 1862-1940 / Peter Zinoman.

Berkeley : University of California Press, [2001], ©2001.

xix, 351 pages : maps ; 24 cm

"A Philip E. Lilienthal book."

The origins of the ill-disciplined prison -- The system: fragmented order and integrative dynamics -- The regime: surveillance, forced labor, and total care -- Prisoners and prison society -- Colonial prisons in revolt, 1862-1930 -- The Thai Nguyen rebellion -- Prison cells and the party cells: the Indochinese communists party in prison, 1930-1936 -- Prisons and the colonial press, 1934-1939 -- The prisoner released.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-329) and index.

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