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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
2018.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction THE NATION-BUILDING METAPHOR
- 1 THE DIEM YEARS
- 2 THE JOHNSON ADMINISTRATION AND NATION BUILDING
- 3 SETTING UP CORDS
- 4 THE "OPPORTUNITY"
- 5 THE NIXON ADMINISTRATION AND NATION BUILDING
- 6 CORDS AND THE VILLAGE SYSTEM
- 7 IMPLEMENTING THE VILLAGE SYSTEM
- Conclusion HUMILITY AND NATION BUILDING
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index