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A Companion to the Vietnam War
Marilyn B. Young (Edited by), M Young (Author), Robert Buzzanco (Edited by)
9781405149839, Wiley
Paperback / softback, published 19 January 2006
528 pages
24.6 x 17.3 x 3 cm, 0.916 kg
“Overall, this collection will inform and challenge readers, who will discover stimulating perspectives that deliver on Young and Buzzanco’s claims, comprising a welcome addition to the literature.” History: Reviews of New Books "The quality of the essays... make it an easy recommendation to those looking at the war." “This terrific collection of twenty-four original articles is as valuable for the teacher as for the student of the Vietnam War. The contributors, who universally rank among the foremost experts on both the War and Southeast Asian history, utilize diverse frameworks and diverse sources to produce diverse perspectives. Young and Buzzanco warrant praise and thanks for assembling a volume sure to become mandatory reading.” Richard Immerman, Temple University “These stimulating essays on both the Southeast Asian and American sides of the war contribute valuable new insights into old debates, such as presidential decisions, and leading-edge investigations into new issues, such as ethnicity, gender, and memory.” David L. Anderson, University of Indianapolis
Journal of American Studies
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.
About the Contributors viii Introduction xi 1 Hanoi’s Long Century 1 PART 1 THE VIETNAMESE IN CONTEXT 17 2 In Search of Ho Chi Minh 19 3 Belated Asian Allies: The Technical and Military Contributions of Japanese Deserters (1945-50) 37 4 The Realities and Consequences of War in a Northern Vietnamese Commune 65 5 The My Tho Grapevine and the Sino-Soviet Split 79 6 “Vietnam” as a Women’s War 93 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 8 Franklin Roosevelt, Trusteeship, and US Exceptionalism: Reconsidering the American Vision of Postcolonial Vietnam 130 9 Dreaming Different Dreams: The United States and the Army of the Republic of Vietnam 146 10 JFK and the Myth of Withdrawal 162 11 The Politics of Escalation in Vietnam During the Johnson Years 174 12 A Casualty of War: The Break in American Relations with Cambodia, 1965 198 13 The Last Casualty? Richard Nixon and the End of the Vietnam War, 1969-75 229 14 Remembering Nixon’s War 260 15 America’s Secret War in Laos, 1955-75 283 PART 111 AMERICANS AT HOME AND ABROAD 315 16 Missing in Action in the Twenty-First Century 317 17 African Americans and the Vietnam War 333 18 Mexican Americans and the Viet Nam War 348 19 “They’ll Forgive You for Anything Except Being Weak”: Gender and US Escalation in Vietnam 1961-65 367 20 The Antiwar Movement 384 21 The Veterans Antiwar Movement in Fact and Memory 403 22 Sanctuary!: A Bridge Between Civilian and GI Protest Against the Vietnam War 416 23 Knowledge at War: American Social Science and Vietnam 434 24 The War on Television: TV News, the Johnson Administration, and Vietnam 450 Select Bibliography 470 Index 491
Stein Tonnesson
William Duiker
Christopher E. Goscha
Shaun Malarney
David Hunt
Karen G. Turner
Anne Foster
Mark Bradley
Robert K. Bridham
Edwin E. Moise
Robert Buzzanco
Kenton Clymer
Lloyd Gardner
Carolyn Eisenberg
Alfred W McCoy
Bruce Franklin
James Westheider
George Mariscal
Robert Dean
Barbara Tischler
John Prados
Michael S. Foley
Michael E. Latham
Chester J Pach, Jr.
Compiled by Amy E. Blackwell
Subject Areas: History [HB]
