After the Cataclysm

by Chomsky, Noam; Herman, Edward S.

• ISBN13: 9780896081017
• ISBN10: 089608101X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1979-06-01
• Publisher: South End Pr

Summary

Dissects the aftermath of the war in Southeast Asia, the refugee problem, the Vietnam/Cambodia conflict, and the Pol Pot regime.

Author Biography

Noam Chomsky, Professor of Linguistics at M.I.T. in Cambridge Edward S. Herman, Professor of Finance at the Wharton School, University of Penn.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
The Setting	p. 1
The U.S. Impact on Indochina	p. 1
The United States in Vietnam: A Partial Victory	p. 7
Picking Up the Pieces: A Return to Counterrevolutionary Intervention	p. 17
Precedents	p. 23
The Intelligentsia and the State	p. 23
In the Light of History	p. 32
Refugees: Indochina and Beyond	p. 49
Vietnam	p. 61
Laos	p. 119
Cambodia	p. 135
Final Comments	p. 295
Footnotes	p. 301
Index	p. 385
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