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9781405172042

A Companion to the Vietnam War

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  • ISBN13:

    9781405172042

  • ISBN10:

    1405172045

  • Format: eBook
  • Copyright: 2008-04-01
  • Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
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Summary

A Companion to the Vietnam War contains twenty-four definitive essays on America's longest and most divisive foreign conflict. It represents the best current scholarship on this controversial and influential episode in modern American history. Highlights issues of nationalism, culture, gender, and race. Covers the breadth of Vietnam War history, including American war policies, the Vietnamese perspective, the antiwar movement, and the American home front. Surveys and evaluates the best scholarship on every important era and topic. Includes a select bibliography to guide further research.

Table of Contents

About the Contributors
Introduction
HanoiÆs Long Century
The Vietnamese In Context
In Search of Ho Chi Minh
Belated Asian Allies: The Technical and Military Contributions of Japanese Deserters (1945-50)
The Realities and Consequences of War in a Northern Vietnamese Commune
The My Tho Grapevine and the Sino-Soviet Split
"Vietnam" as a WomenÆs War
The Americans In Southeast Asian Context
Before the War: Legacies from the Early Twentieth Century in United States-Vietnam Relations
Franklin Roosevelt, Trusteeship, and US Exceptionalism: Reconsidering the American Vision of Postcolonial Vietnam
Dreaming Different Dreams: The United States and the Army of the Republic of Vietnam
JFK and the Myth of Withdrawal
The Politics of Escalation in Vietnam During the Johnson Years
A Casualty of War: The Break in American Relations with Cambodia, 1965
The Last Casualty? Richard Nixon and the End of the Vietnam War, 1969-75
Remembering NixonÆs War
AmericaÆs Secret War in Laos, 1955-75
Americans At Home And Abroad
Missing in Action in the Twenty-First Century
African Americans and the Vietnam War
Mexican Americans and the Viet Nam War
"TheyÆll Forgive You for Anything Except Being WeekÆ: Gender and US Escalation in Vietnam 1961-65
The Antiwar Movement
The Veterans Antiwar Movement in Fact and Memory
Sanctuary!: A Bridge Between Civilian and GI Protest Against the Vietnam War
Knowledge at War: American Social Science and Vietnam
The War on Television: TV News, the Johnson Administration, and Vietnam
Select Bibliography
Index
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