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.
Tabella dei contenuti
About the Contributors viii
Introduction xi
1 Hanoi’s Long Century 1
Stein Tonnesson
PART 1 THE VIETNAMESE IN CONTEXT 17
2 In Search of Ho Chi Minh 19
William Duiker
3 Belated Asian Allies: The Technical and Military Contributions of Japanese Deserters (1945-50) 37
Christopher E. Goscha
4 The Realities and Consequences of War in a Northern Vietnamese Commune 65
Shaun Malarney
5 The My Tho Grapevine and the Sino-Soviet Split 79
David Hunt
6 ‘Vietnam’ as a Women’s War 93
Karen G. Turner
PART 11 THE AMERICANS IN SOUTHEAST ASIAN CONTEXT 113
7 Before the War: Legacies from the Early Twentieth Century in United States-Vietnam Relations 115
Anne Foster
8 Franklin Roosevelt, Trusteeship, and US Exceptionalism: Reconsidering the American Vision of Postcolonial Vietnam 130
Mark Bradley
9 Dreaming Different Dreams: The United States and the Army of the Republic of Vietnam 146
Robert K. Bridham
10 JFK and the Myth of Withdrawal 162
Edwin E. Moise
11 The Politics of Escalation in Vietnam During the Johnson Years 174
Robert Buzzanco
12 A Casualty of War: The Break in American Relations with Cambodia, 1965 198
Kenton Clymer
13 The Last Casualty? Richard Nixon and the End of the Vietnam War, 1969-75 229
Lloyd Gardner
14 Remembering Nixon’s War 260
Carolyn Eisenberg
15 America’s Secret War in Laos, 1955-75 283
Alfred W Mc Coy
PART 111 AMERICANS AT HOME AND ABROAD 315
16 Missing in Action in the Twenty-First Century 317
Bruce Franklin
17 African Americans and the Vietnam War 333
James Westheider
18 Mexican Americans and the Viet Nam War 348
George Mariscal
19 ‘They’ll Forgive You for Anything Except Being Weak’: Gender and US Escalation in Vietnam 1961-65 367
Robert Dean
20 The Antiwar Movement 384
Barbara Tischler
21 The Veterans Antiwar Movement in Fact and Memory 403
John Prados
22 Sanctuary!: A Bridge Between Civilian and GI Protest Against the Vietnam War 416
Michael S. Foley
23 Knowledge at War: American Social Science and Vietnam 434
Michael E. Latham
24 The War on Television: TV News, the Johnson Administration, and Vietnam 450
Chester J Pach, Jr.
Select Bibliography 470
Compiled by Amy E. Blackwell
Index 491
Circa l’autore
Marilyn B. Young is Professor of History at New York
University. She is the author of Rhetoric of Empire: American
China Policy (1969) and The Vietnam Wars (1991), winner
of the Berkshire Women’s History Prize. She is the co-author
of Transforming Russia and China: Revolutionary Struggle in the
20th Century (with William Rosenberg, 1980), Promissory
Notes: Women and the Transition to Socialism (with Rayna Rapp
and Sonia Kruks, 1983), and Vietnam and America (with Marvin
Gettleman, Jane Franklin, and Bruce Franklin, 1995), and is the
co-editor of Human Rights and Revolutions (with Lynn Hunt
and Jeffrey Wasserstrom, 2000).
Robert Buzzanco is Associate Professor of History at the
University of Houston. He is the author of Masters of War:
Military Dissent and Politics in the Vietnam Era (1996), winner
of the Stuart L. Bernath Prize, and Vietnam and the
Transformation of American Life (Blackwell, 1999).
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