Tours of Vietnam War, Travel Guides, and Memory

Name: Tours of Vietnam War, Travel Guides, and Memory
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ISBN: 9780822344148

ISBN-10: 0822344149

ISBN-13: 9780822344148

Edition: 2009

Authors: Scott Laderman

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InTours of Vietnam, Scott Laderman demonstrates how tourist literature has shaped Americans' understanding of Vietnam and projections of United States power since the mid-twentieth century. Laderman analyzes portrayals of Vietnam's land, history, culture, economy, and people in travel narratives, U.S. military guides, and tourist guidebooks, pamphlets, and brochures. Whether implying that Vietnamese women were in need of saving by "manly" American military power or celebrating the neo-liberal reforms Vietnam implemented in the 1980s, ostensibly neutral guides have repeatedly represented events, particularly those related to the Vietnam War, in ways that favour the global ambitions of the…

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List price: $24.99
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 1/16/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 312
Size: 0.24" wide x 0.35" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English



Prefatory Note The Nomenclature of the Vietnam War


Acknowledgments


Abbreviations and Acronyms


Introduction History, Tourism, and the Question of Empire



Tourism and State Legitimacy in the Republic of Vietnam



Educating Private Ryan: Tourism and the United States Military in Postcolonial Vietnam



"The Set About Revenging Themselves on the Population": The "Hue Massacre" and the Shaping of Historical Consciousness



The New Modernizers: Naturalizing Capitalism in Doi Moi Vietnam



"The Other Side of the War": Memory and Meaning at the War Remnants Museum


Epilogue Tourism and the Martial Fascination


Notes


References


Index