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Informationen zum Autor Robert Young Klappentext A Companion to the Vietnam War contains twenty-four definitive essays on America's longest and most divisive foreign conflict. These historiographical and narrative essays by leading historians examine the war in its most important contexts. The broad thematic coverage of the book includes the political strategy of three American presidents, the American military tactics and their consequences, the adjoining wars in Laos and Cambodia, the American home front and antiwar movement, and the intersections of race, class, and gender in both America and Vietnam. This volume represents the best current scholarship on one of the most controversial and influential episodes in modern American history. It also contains an expanded bibliography of hundreds of secondary sources to guide further research. For students, scholars, and general readers of Vietnam War studies, this Companion is a vital resource. Zusammenfassung 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. * Highlights issues of nationalism! culture! gender! and race. Inhaltsverzeichnis About the Contributors viii Introduction xi 1 Hanoi's Long Century 1 Stein Tonnesson PART 1 THE VIETNAMESE IN CONTEXT 17 2 In Search of Ho Chi Minh 19 William Duiker 3 Belated Asian Allies: The Technical and Military Contributions of Japanese Deserters (1945-50) 37 Christopher E. Goscha 4 The Realities and Consequences of War in a Northern Vietnamese Commune 65 Shaun Malarney 5 The My Tho Grapevine and the Sino-Soviet Split 79 David Hunt 6 "Vietnam" as a Women's War 93 Karen G. Turner 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 Anne Foster 8 Franklin Roosevelt, Trusteeship, and US Exceptionalism: Reconsidering the American Vision of Postcolonial Vietnam 130 Mark Bradley 9 Dreaming Different Dreams: The United States and the Army of the Republic of Vietnam 146 Robert K. Bridham 10 JFK and the Myth of Withdrawal 162 Edwin E. Moise 11 The Politics of Escalation in Vietnam During the Johnson Years 174 Robert Buzzanco 12 A Casualty of War: The Break in American Relations with Cambodia, 1965 198 Kenton Clymer 13 The Last Casualty? Richard Nixon and the End of the Vietnam War, 1969-75 229 Lloyd Gardner 14 Remembering Nixon's War 260 Carolyn Eisenberg 15 America's Secret War in Laos, 1955-75 283 Alfred W McCoy PART 111 AMERICANS AT HOME AND ABROAD 315 16 Missing in Action in the Twenty-First Century 317 Bruce Franklin 17 African Americans and the Vietnam War 333 James Westheider 18 Mexican Americans and the Viet Nam War 348 George Mariscal 19 "They'll Forgive You for Anything Except Being Weak": Gender and US Escalation in Vietnam 1961-65 367 Robert Dean 20 The Antiwar Movement 384 Barbara Tischler 21 The Veterans Antiwar Movement in Fact and Memory 403 John Prados 22 Sanctuary!: A Bridge Between Civilian and GI Protest Against the Vietnam War 416 Michael S. Foley 23 Knowledge at War: American Social Science and Vietnam 434 Michael E. Latham 24 The War on Television: TV News, the Johnson Administration, and Vietnam 450 Chester J Pach, Jr. Select Bibliography 470 Compiled by Amy E. Blackwell ...
