Columbia History of the Vietnam War

Name: Columbia History of the Vietnam War
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ISBN: 9780231134804

ISBN-10: 0231134800

ISBN-13: 9780231134804

Edition: 2011

Authors: David Anderson

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America's experience in Vietnam continues to figure prominently in debates over strategy and defense and within the discourse on the identity of the United States as a nation. Through fifteen essays rooted in recent scholarship, The Columbia History of the Vietnam War is a chronological and critical collective history central to any discussion of America's interests abroad.David Anderson opens with an essay on the Vietnam War's major themes and enduring relevance. Mark Philip Bradley (University of Chicago) reexamines the rise of Vietnamese revolutionary nationalism and the Vietminh-led war against French colonialism. Richard Immerman (Temple University) revisits Eisenhower's and Kennedy's…

Book details

List price: $70.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 1/25/2011
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 488
Size: 0.66" wide x 0.91" long x 0.13" tall
Weight: 1.738
Language: English



Preface


Abbreviations


Introduction: The Vietnam War and Its Enduring Historical Relevance




Chronological Perspectives



Setting the Stage: Vietnamese Revolutionary Nationalism and the First Vietnam War




"Dealing with a Government of Madmen": Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Ngo Dinh Diem




South Vietnam Under Siege, 1961-1965: Kennedy, Johnson, and the Question of Escalation or Disengagement




Lyndon Johnson and the Bombing of Vietnam: Politics and Military Choices




Turning Point: The Vietnam War's Pivotal Year, November 1967-November 1968




Richard M. Nixon and the Vietnam War: The Paradox of Disengagement with Escalation




Topical Perspectives



American Strategy in the Vietnam War




The Village War in Vietnam, 1965-1973




Fighting for Family: Vietnamese Women and the American War




Vietnamese Society at War




"Hey, Hey, LBJ!": American Domestic Politics and the Vietnam War




Cambodia and Laos in the Vietnam War




Postwar Perspectives



The Legacy of the Vietnam War




The Vietnam Syndrome



Contributors


Index