The Cambridge History of the Vietnam War 3 Volume Hardback Set

An authoritative and comprehensive three-volume study of the Vietnam War by the leading experts in the field.

Lien-Hang T. Nguyen (General editor), Edward Miller (Edited by), Andrew Preston (Edited by), Pierre Asselin (Edited by)

9781107105157, Cambridge University Press

Multiple-component retail product, published 28 November 2024

1872 pages
23.4 x 15.6 x 10.4 cm, 3.39 kg

Split into three volumes, The Cambridge History of the Vietnam War brings together seventy-five leading experts on the war from across the world, covering the late colonial era to present-day legacies, using a range of diverse methodologies and approaches. When did the fighting begin, why and how did it escalate, and in what manner did the violence end and the legacies endure? These are some of the fundamental questions that have consumed scholars, whose works trigger more questions than offer definitive answers. The volumes seek neither to reconcile past arguments, enflame ongoing disputes, or set off new debates – instead, they intend to celebrate the diversity and differences in scholarship and attest to the indisputable importance of this conflict in global history. From decision-making in the corridors of power, to everyday life at war on the battlefront and homefront, to cultural legacies of the war on a global level, the three volumes present the most exhaustive and authoritative treatment of the seminal conflict.

Volume I: Introduction. Points of departure: the global and local origins of the Vietnam War
Part I. Empires and Nations: 1. Memory, tradition, and the history of 'Vietnam'
2. The origins of the Vietnamese revolution
3. Hồ Chí Minh and the rise of the Vietnamese Communist Party
4. Indochina during World War II
5. The august revolution of 1945
Part II. The First Indochina War: 6. The birth of the democratic republic of Vietnam
7. Empire and decolonization in France and Indochina
8. China, the Soviet Union, and the first Indochina War
9. The first Indochina War in the Central Highlands
10. The first Indochina War in Northern Vietnam and the red river delta
11. The battle of Điện Biện Phủ
Part III. The Two Vietnams: 12. The Geneva Conference of 1954
13. Eisenhower and Vietnam
14. Ngô Đình Diệm and the birth of the Republic of Vietnam
15. Nation building in South Vietnam after Geneva
16. Building socialism in North Vietnam after Geneva
17. North Vietnam's road to war
18. Laos between two wars
19. The origins of the insurgency in South Vietnam
20. Kennedy and Vietnam
21. The crises of 1963
Volume II: Introduction
Part I. Battlefields: 1. Reconsidering American strategy in Vietnam
2. The air wars in Vietnam
3. US combat soldiers in Vietnam
4. American women and the Vietnam War
5. The conundrum of Pacification
6. The US military presence in South Vietnam
7. The ARVN experience
8. The National Liberation Front
9. The people's army of Vietnam
10. Vietnamese women and the war
11. Vietnam's ethnic minorities at war
12. The war in numbers
13. The Tet Offensive
Part II. Homefronts: 14. Dominoes abroad and at home
15. LBJ, the great society, and Vietnam
16. Politics in South Vietnam, 1963–68
17. Politics in the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, 1963–68
18. The antiwar movement in the United States
19. Vietnam and American race relations
20. Prowar sentiment in the United States
21. The US news media and Vietnam
22. The South Vietnamese Homefront
23. The North Vietnamese Homefront
Part III. Global Vietnam: 24. International radicalism and antiwar protest
25. The Vietnam war and the Sino-Soviet Split
26. Western Europe and the Vietnam war
27. International peace initiatives
28. Japan and the Vietnam war
29. The economics of the Vietnam War
30. The Global 1968
Volume III: Introduction
Part I. The Late Vietnam War: 1. Nixon's war
2. US military strategy in the Nixon Era
3. The US congress and the war
4. US antiwar sentiment and international relationships in the late Vietnam war
5. Saigon war politics, 1968–1975
6. Hanoi's politburo at war, 1969–1975
7. The Vietnam war and the regional context
8. Moscow, Beijing, and Détente
9. The easter offensive and the second air war
10. The Second Civil War, 1973–75
11. Cambodia at war
12. Laos at war
Part II. The Postwar Era: 13. Vietnam after 'Liberation'
14. The third world and the Communist Triumph in Vietnam
15. The Third Indochina War
16. Vietnam in the reform era
17. Postwar US-Vietnam relations
18. Refugees and US-Vietnam relations
19. The US POW Experience, American Veterans, and the war
Part III. Legacies: 20. The Vietnam War and International Law
21. The environmental impact of war
22. The Vietnamese diaspora
23. How Vietnam remembers the war
24. The Vietnam war in American culture
25. The Spectre of Vietnam
26. Vietnam's search for its place in the world.

Subject Areas: Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000 [HBLW3]