To Build as Well as Destroy American Nation Building in South Vietnam /

This book provides the most detailed analysis yet of the failure of U.S. nation-building in the Vietnam War. In doing so, it demolishes the "better war" school of writing on the topic, which argues that the U.S. was successful in building a legitimate and viable non-Communist state in Sout...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Andrew, Gawthorpe (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2018.
Temas:
History.
Histoire.
history (discipline)
History / Military.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 0 |t Frontmatter --  |t Contents --  |t Acknowledgments --  |t Introduction THE NATION-BUILDING METAPHOR --  |t 1 THE DIEM YEARS --  |t 2 THE JOHNSON ADMINISTRATION AND NATION BUILDING --  |t 3 SETTING UP CORDS --  |t 4 THE "OPPORTUNITY" --  |t 5 THE NIXON ADMINISTRATION AND NATION BUILDING --  |t 6 CORDS AND THE VILLAGE SYSTEM --  |t 7 IMPLEMENTING THE VILLAGE SYSTEM --  |t Conclusion HUMILITY AND NATION BUILDING --  |t Abbreviations --  |t Notes --  |t Bibliography --  |t Index 
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