Making Sense of the Vietnam Wars

Local, National, and Transnational Perspectives
Herausgeber: Bradley, Mark Philip; Young, Marilyn B

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Produktbeschreibung

Looks at how interpreations of key events change over time New essays on Vietnam from every perspective written by a renowned multigenerational group of contributors

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. April 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 156mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 469g
• ISBN-13: 9780195315141
• ISBN-10: 0195315146
• Artikelnr.: 23579070

Autorenporträt

Mark Philip Bradley is Associate Professor of History, University of Chicago. Marilyn B. Young is Professor of History, New York University.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction: Making Sense of the Vietnam Wars- Mark Philip Bradley
and Marilyn B. Young
* Part One: American Intervention and the Cold War Consensus
* 1: Explaining the Early Decisions: The United States and the French
War, 1945-1954- Mark Atwood Lawrence (University of Texas at Austin)
* 2: No Place to Fight a War: Laos and the Evolution of U.S. Policy
toward Vietnam, 1954-1963-Seth Jacobs
* 3: Explaining the Vietnam War: Dominant and Contending
Paradigms-Gareth Porter (independent scholar)
* 4: There Aint No Daylight: Lyndon Johnson and the Politics of
Escalation- Fredrik Logevall (Cornell University)
* Part Two: The Coming of War in Vietnam
* 5: Through a Glass Darkly: Reading the History of the Vietnamese
Communist Party, 1945-1975-Sophie Quinn-Judge (Temple University)
* 6: Vision, Power and Agency: The Ascent of Ngo Dinh Diem, 1945-1954-
Edward Miller (Dartmouth University)
* 7: Taking Notice of the Everyday- David Hunt (University of
Massachusetts- Boston)
* 8: Co So Cach Mang and the Social Network of War- Heonik Kwon
(University of Edinburgh)
* Part Three: Wars End and Endless Wars
* 9: Cold War Contradictions: Toward an International History of the
Second Indochina War, 1969-1973- Lien Hang T. Nguyen (University of
Kentucky)
* 10: Help Us Tell the Truth about Vietnam: POW/MIA Politics and the
End of the American War- Michael J. Allen (North Carolina State
University)
* 11: Official History, Revisionist History and Wild History- David
W.P. Elliott (Pomona College)
* Suggested Readings