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Inventing Vietnam : the United States and State Building, 1954-1968 /
This book considers the Vietnam war in light of U.S. foreign policy in Vietnam, concluding that the war was a direct result of failed state-building efforts. This U.S. nation building project began in the mid-1950s with the ambitious goal of creating a new independent, democratic, modern state below...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2008.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The Cold War, colonialism, and the origins of the American commitment to Vietnam, 1945-1954
- 3. 'The needs are enormous, the time short': Michigan State University, the United States operations mission, nation building, and Vietnam
- 4. Surviving the crises: Southern Vietnam, 1958-1960
- 5. 'A permanent mendicant': Southern Vietnam, 1960-1963
- 6. A period of shakedown: Southern Vietnam, 1963-1965
- 7. The paradox of construction and destruction: Southern Vietnam 1966-1968
- 8. Epilogue: war, politics, and the end in Vietnam.