Making Sense of the Vietnam Wars Local, National, and Transnational Perspectives

Name: Making Sense of the Vietnam Wars Local, National, and Transnational Perspectives
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ISBN: 9780195315141

ISBN-10: 0195315146

ISBN-13: 9780195315141

Edition: 2008

Authors: Mark Philip Bradley, Marilyn B. Young

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Making sense of the wars for Vietnam has had a long history. The question "why Vietnam?" dominated American and Vietnamese political life for much of the length of the Vietnam wars and has continued to be asked in the three decades since they ended. The essays in this inaugural volume of theNational History Center's book series "Reinterpreting History" examine the conceptual and methodological shifts that mark the contested terrain of Vietnam war scholarship. They range top-down reconsiderations of critical decision-making moments in Washington, Hanoi, and Saigon to microhistories ofthe war that explore its meanings from the bottom up. Some draw on recently available Vietnamese-language…

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List price: $31.99
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/30/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.21" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 1.012
Language: English

Mark Philip Bradley is associate professor of U.S. international history at the University of Chicago.



Editors and Contributors


Introduction: Making Sense of the Vietnam Wars




American Intervention and the Cold War Consensus


Explaining the Early Decisions: The United States and the French War, 1945-1954



"No Place to Fight a War": Laos and the Evolution of U.S. Policy toward Vietnam, 1954-1963



Explaining the Vietnam War: Dominant and Contending Paradigms



"There Ain't No Daylight": Lyndon Johnson and the Politics of Escalation




The Coming of War in Vietnam


Through a Glass Darkly: Reading the History of the Vietnamese Communist Party, 1945-1975



Vision, Power, and Agency: The Ascent of Ngo Dinh Diem, 1945-1954



Taking Notice of the Everyday



Co So Cach Mang and the Social Network of War




War's End and Endless Wars


Cold War Contradictions: Toward an International History of the Second Indochina War, 1969-1973



"Help Us Tell the Truth about Vietnam": POW/MIA Politics and the End of the American War



Official History, Revisionist History, and Wild History



Suggested Readings


Index