| Description |
xiv, 308 pages : maps ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Columbia guides to American history and cultures |
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Columbia guides to American history and cultures.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Part I Historical narrative -- 1 Studying the Vietnam War -- 2 Vietnam: historical background -- Roots of the Vietnamese culture and state -- The Impact of French colonialism -- The Rise of Vietnamese nationalism -- The Origins of vietnamese communism -- 3 United States: historical background -- Idealism and realism in U.S. foreign relations -- The United States and the open door in Asia -- World wars: the legacies of WIlson and Munich -- The Origins of the cold war -- 4 The French war in Vietnam -- The August revolution -- Outbreak of the Franco-Vietminh War -- U.S. support of France in Indochina -- Dienbienphu and the Geneva Conference -- t The Diem years: Eisenhower -- Decision to back Ngo Dinh Diem -- The Non-election of 1956 -- The Illusion of nation building -- NLF: rise of the Southern insurgency. |
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6 The Diem years: Kennedy -- Counterinsurgency warfare -- The Buddhist crisis -- The Diem assassination -- What if Kennedy had lived? -- 7 The American war in Vietnam: escalation -- The Gulf of Tonkin incident -- Rolling thunder -- Johnson decides on a land war in Asia -- Theories of causation -- 8 The American war in Vietnam: strategy -- The Draft -- Attrition strategy and body count -- Humpin' it: the American soldier -- The Air war -- Diplomacy -- The Resilient enemy -- 9 The American war in Vietnam: the limits of power -- The Tet offensive -- The Antiwar movement and the media -- Johnson's decision to stop escalation -- The Presidential election of 1968 -- 10 The American war in Vietnam: de-escalation -- Vietnamization and more bombing -- Cambodia and Kent State -- Negotiations and the Paris Peace Accords -- DRV victory in 1975 -- 11 The War that will not go away -- The Postwars in Southeast Asia -- American Vietnam veterans -- Films, fiction, and poetry -- Postmortems -- Part II The Vietnam War from A to Z -- Part III Chronology -- Part IV resource guide. |
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2 History of Southeast Asia and U.S. foreign relations -- General history of Vietnam -- History of U.S. foreign relations -- The French Indochina War -- Laos and Cambodia -- The Diem years -- 4 North Vietnam and the Vietcong -- 5 Escalation of the American war -- The Gulf of Tonkin incident -- Lyndon Johnson's decisions for war -- 6 The American way of war -- Military operations and overviews -- My Lai Massacre -- Pacification and counterinsurgency -- International setting -- 7 Limits of American power -- Antiwar movement -- American politics and economy -- Television and the press -- The Tet Offensive -- The End of the American war -- Richard Nixon's war and diplomacy -- The End of South Vietnam -- 9 The Legacy of the Vietnam war -- Lessons and postmortems -- Literarture, movies and music -- American cultural myths and the national identity -- 10 Films and documentaries -- 11 Electronic resources -- Part V Appendices. |
| Subject |
Vietnam War, 1961-1975.
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| ISBN |
0231114923 alkaline paper |
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0231114931 paperback alkaline paper |
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