Chiefdoms

Water, rice, and bronze: prehistoric Viêt Nam

Provinces

Calming the waves: imperial conquest and indigenization, 221 BCE-540 CE

Mountains and rivers of the Southern Kingdom: Annam and its neighbors, sixth to tenth centuries

Kingdoms

"Rice from the sky": assembling the spirits of Đai Viêt, 940-1340

Smooth-flowing waters of government: the triumph of Confucianism, 1340-1570

Regions

Inner and outer regions: contending shogunates, 1570-1770

Alternative unifications: rebellion and restoration

Colonies

"World tends" and French conquest, 1860-1920

Writing and revolution from colonialism to independence, 1920-54

Republics

The American-Vietnamese War, 1954-75

The making of contemporary Viẹt̂ Nam, 1975-2016.