Introduction: America's war and the world Andreas W. Daum, Lloyd C. Gardner
and Wilfried Mausbach; Part I. Relocating Vietnam: Comparisons in Time and
Space: 1. A colonial war in a postcolonial age: the United States's
occupation of Vietnam Michael Adas; 2. Visions of the Asian periphery:
Vietnam (1964-8) and the Philippines (1898-1900) Fabian Hilfrich; 3. The
challenge of revolutions and the emergence of nation-states: British
reactions to the foundation of the United States and American responses to
the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, 1780-1980 T. Christopher Jespersen; 4. A
comparative study of peripheral wars: the United States in Vietnam and
Japan in China John Prados; 5. The Panmunjom and Paris armistices: patterns
of war termination Jeffrey Kimball; 6. Versailles and Vietnam: coming to
terms with war Sabine Behrenbeck; Part II. International Relations and the
Dynamics of Alliance Politics: 7. Who paid for America's war? Vietnam and
the international monetary system, 1960-75 Hubert Zimmerman; 8. America
isolated: the western powers and the escalation of the war Fredrick
Logevall; 9. Bamboo in the shadows: United States relations with Thailand
during the Vietnam war Arne Kislenko; 10. The strategic concerns of a
regional power: Australia's involvement in the Vietnam war Peter Edwards;
11. 'Peoples' warfare versus peaceful coexistence?' Vietnam and the
Sino-Soviet struggle for ideological supremacy Eva-Maria Stolberg; Part
III. Recasting Vietnam: Domestic Scenes and Discourses: 12. The center-left
government in Italy and the escalation of the Vietnam war Leopoldo Nuti;
13. Auschwitz and Vietnam: West German protest against America's war during
the 1960s Wilfried Mausbach; 14. The world peace council and the antiwar
movement in east Germany Günter Wernicke; 15. All power to the imagination!
Antiwar activism and emerging feminism in the late 1960s Barbara Tischler;
16. Vietnam: many wars? Lloyd C. Gardner; Index.
