Cargando…

The Vietnam War in the Pacific world /

"Fifty years since the signing of the Paris Peace Accords signaled the final withdrawal of U.S. troops from Vietnam, the war's mark on the Pacific world remains. The essays gathered here offer an essential, postcolonial interpretation of a struggle rooted not only in Indochinese history bu...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Cuddy, Brian (Editor ), Logevall, Fredrik, 1963- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2022]
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Fire in the American lake: towards a regional turn in Vietnam War studies / Brian Cuddy and Fredrik Logevall
  • British neocolonialism in Malaya and Singapore, and U.S. empire in the Pacific / Wen-Qing Ngoei
  • Made in Britain: the fantasy driving Australia's involvement in the Vietnam War / Greg Lockhart
  • The war of Southeast Asia: falling dominoes, the 1967 Clifford-Taylor mission, and the fight for the stability of the Pacific world / A. Gabrielle Westcott
  • A far greater prize than Vietnam: the United States, Indonesia, and the Vietnam War / Mark Atwood Lawrence
  • The view from the hill: Hawai'i's congressional delegation and the struggle for peace in Vietnam and equity at home, 1964-1975 / Marc Jason Gilbert
  • GI resistance and transpacific activism in Iwakuni during the Vietnam War: a piece of forgotten history / Noriko Shiratori
  • The U.S. military's R&R program in Taipei, 1965-1972 / Zach Fredman
  • Taiwanese economic assistance to South Vietnam, 1955-1975 / Jason Lim
  • The "Vietnamese" skirt and other wartime myths in Lee Yun-gi's "Trigonometric functions" / Alice S. Kim
  • The American-led military coalition in Vietnam: interests, incentives, and interpretations / David L. Anderson
  • LBJ's Hessians 'Korean troops' dispatch to Vietnam / Christopher Lovins
  • Strengthening the regime: Singapore, the United States, and the war in Indochina / S.R. Joey Long
  • Buying time? The Vietnam War and Southeast Asia / Mattias Fibiger
  • From resident to refugee: the exodus from Southern Vietnam in the late 1970s / Lisa Tran
  • Vietnamese refugee status, habeas corpus, and Hong Kong, 1988-1997 / Jana K. Lipman
  • Moving beyond the past: Vietnamese serving in the Australian Defence Force / Nathalie Huynh Chau Nguyen
  • Veterans' reflections on legacies of war in Việt Nam at peace / Mia Martin Hobbs
  • Colonial legacies of dioxin contamination in Vietnam and Australia / Boi Huyen Ngo.