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Making sense of the Vietnam wars : local, national, and transnational perspectives
Title
Making sense of the Vietnam wars : local, national, and transnational perspectives / edited by Mark Philip Bradley and Marilyn B. Young.
ISBN
9780195315134 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0195315138 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780195315141 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0195315146 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Published
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
Physical Description
xi, 318 p. ; 24 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 22, 2009
Series
Reinterpreting history
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-308) and index.
Contents
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.
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