Making Sense of the Vietnam Wars

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Beschreibung

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

Über den Autor

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

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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)

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Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2008
Genre:	Geschichte , Importe
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
ISBN-13:	9780195315141
ISBN-10:	0195315146
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Redaktion:	Bradley, Mark Philip Young, Marilyn B.
Hersteller:	Oxford University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	229 x 152 x 20 mm
Von/Mit:	Mark Philip Bradley (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum:	01.04.2008
Gewicht:	0,54 kg