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Making sense of the Vietnam wars : local, national, and transnational perspectives /

Making sense of the wars for Vietnam has had a long history. The question "why Vietnam?" dominated American and Vietnamese political life for much of the length of the wars and has continued to be asked in the decades since they ended. This volume brings together the work of eleven scholar...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Bradley, Mark, 1961-, Young, Marilyn Blatt
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
Colección:Reinterpreting history.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • pt. 1. American intervention and the Cold War consensus. Explaining the early decisions / Mark Atwood Lawrence
  • "No place to fight a war" / Seth Jacobs
  • Explaining the Vietnam War / Gareth Porter
  • "There ain't no daylight" / Fredrik Logevall
  • pt. 2. The coming of war in Vietnam. Through a glass darkly / Sophie Quinn-Judge
  • Vision, power, and agency / Edward Miller
  • Taking notice of the everyday / David Hunt
  • Co so cach mang and the social network of war / Heonik Kwon
  • pt. 3. War's end and endless wars. Cold War contradictions / Lien-Hang T. Nguyen
  • "Help us tell the truth about Vietnam" / Michael J. Allen
  • Official history, revisionist history, and wild history / David W.P. Elliott.