Making Sense of the Vietnam Wars : Local, National, and Transnational Perspectives.
Title:
Making Sense of the Vietnam Wars : Local, National, and Transnational Perspectives.
Author:
Young, Marilyn B.
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9780198043027
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (282 pages)
Series:
Reinterpreting History
Contents:
Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Acknowledgment -- Contents -- Editors and Contributors -- Introduction -- PART I: American Intervention and the Cold War Consensus -- Explaining the Early Decisions: The United States and the French War, 1945-1954 MARK ATWOOD LAWRENCE -- "No Place to Fight a War": Laos and the Evolution of U.S. Policy toward Vietnam, 1954-1963 SETH JACOBS -- Explaining the Vietnam War: Dominant and Contending Paradigms GARETH PORTER -- "There Ain't No Daylight": Lyndon Johnson and the Politics of Escalation FREDRIK LOGEVALL -- PART II: The Coming of War in Vietnam -- Through a Glass Darkly: Reading the History of the Vietnamese Communist Party, 1945-1975 SOPHIE QUINN-JUDGE -- Vision, Power, and Agency: The Ascent of Ngo Dinh Diem, 1945-1954 EDWARD MILLER -- Taking Notice of the Everyday DAVID HUNT -- Co So Cach Mang and the Social Network of War HEONIK KWON -- PART III: War's End and Endless Wars -- Cold War Contradictions: Toward an International History of the Second Indochina War, 1969-1973 LIEN-HANG T. NGUYEN -- "Help Us Tell the Truth about Vietnam": POW/MIA Politics and the End of the American War MICHAEL J. ALLEN -- Official History, Revisionist History, and Wild History DAVID W. P. ELLIOTT -- Suggested Readings -- Index.
Abstract:
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 scholars to examine the conceptual and methodological shifts that have marked the contested terrain of Vietnam War scholarship. Editors Marilyn Young and Mark Bradley's superb group of renowned contributors spans the generations--including those who were active during wartime, along with scholars conducting research in Vietnamese sources and uncovering new sources in the United States, former Soviet Union, China, and Eastern and Western Europe. Ranging in format from top-down reconsiderations of critical decision-making moments in Washington, Hanoi, and Saigon, to microhistories of the war that explore its meanings from the bottom up, these essays comprise the most up-to-date collection of scholarship on the controversial historiography of the Vietnam Wars.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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