Mark Pavlick

The United States, Southeast Asia, and Historical Memory (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Sheds crucial new light on the epochal U.S. interventions in Southeast Asia after WWII. Antiwar activist Fred Branfman describes the tragic lives of Laotian peasants under U.S. bombing. Cambodia scholar Ben Kiernan and colleague Owen Taylor illuminate the course of Cambodia history after unprecedented U.S. bombing. The book further includes classic work by Noam Chomsky, Nick Turse, and Edward Herman.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Haymarket Books
• Seitenzahl: 450
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juni 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781608463510
• Artikelnr.: 43110574

Autorenporträt

Mark Pavlick is an independent editor. He was active in the U.S. movement against the Indochina wars in volunteer work with the Indochina Mobile Education Project and the Indochina Resource Center in Washington, D.C.

Inhaltsangabe

CONTENTS
Contributors XX
Acknowledgments and Permissions XX
Message XX
Introduction XX
Richard Falk
1 War Crimes in Indochina and Our Troubled National Soul XX
Fred Branfman
2 Excerpts from Voices from the Plain of Jars XX
Collected by Fred Branfman
3 Legacies of War: Cluster Bombs in Laos XX
Channapha Khamvongsa and Elaine Russell
4 Agent Orange in Vietnam XX
Tuan V. Nguyen
5 Iraq, Another Vietnam? Consider Cambodia XX
Ben Kiernan and Taylor Owen
6 Who Was Responsible for My Lai?
The Peers Commission and the American Way of War Crimes XX
Gareth Porter
7 Thailand in the Era of the Cold War and Rama IX XX
Jim Glassman
8 Concealing War Crimes XX
Nick Turse
9 Bloodbaths in Indochina:
Constructive, Nefarious, and Mythical XX
Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman
10 From Mad Jack to Mad Henry:
The United States in Vietnam XX
Noam Chomsky
11 After "Mad Henry": U.S. Policy Toward Indochina Since 1975 XX
Ngo Vinh Long
12 My Experiences with Laos and the Indochina Wars:
Interview with Fred Branfman XX
13 Interview with Noam Chomsky XX
Glossary of Selected Terms XX
Further Action XX
Recommended Reading XX
Notes XX
Index XX