French Indochina War 1882 1883

Ralph Zuljan offers a very brief description of the French Indochina War of 1882-1883 as part of the Armed Conflict Events Data. The war involved China, Vietnam, and France. At the conclusion of the conflict, the French protectorate of Vietnam was established.

This comparative study of piracy and maritime violence provides a fresh understanding of European overseas expansion and colonisation in Asia. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Dictionary of Wars, highly praised in its first edition (1986), has now been published in a completely revised, updated, and expanded 2nd Edition. The Dictionary provides summaries of all notable wars from earliest recorded history to the present day. It affords the general reader and student with quick, useful, and accurate information - the who, where, when, what, why and how on the more than 1,800 recorded wars in human history from 2000 BC to the present. Completely updated, the Second Edition includes an additional 70 entries - on such major events as the Gulf War, the invasions of Panama and Haiti, and the Bosnian crisis.

This major book provides the most comprehensive guide available to nineteenth and twentieth century wars and their settlement. Erik Goldstein covers all aspects of over one hundred wars. He examines the deeper origins of the conflict, the immediate reason for the outbreak of hostilities, the course of the fighting, and the terms of the settlement. The book is organised both geographically and topically, covering a range of wars including the Post-Napoleonic Revolutionary Wars, Wars of German Unification, the Middle Eastern Wars, Maghreb Wars and South American Wars. There is an extensive bibliography, several appendices and an overall chronology.