The Columbia history of the Vietnam War [electronic resource] / edited, with an introduction, by David L. Anderson.
Anderson, David L., 1946-
2010
DS557.7 .C64 2010eb
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Title The Columbia history of the Vietnam War [electronic resource] / edited, with an introduction, by David L. Anderson.
ISBN 9780231509329 (electronic book)
9780231134804
0231134800
0231509324
Imprint New York : Columbia University Press, 2010.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xiv, 462 p.) : maps
Call Number DS557.7 .C64 2010eb
Summary Laying the chronological and critical foundations for the volume, David L. Anderson opens with an essay on the Vietnam War's major moments and enduring relevance. Mark Philip Bradely follows with a reexamination of Vietnamese revolutionary nationalism and the Vietnam-led war against French colonialism. Richard H. Immerman revisits Eisenhower's and Kennedy's efforts at nation building in South Vietnam, and Gary R. Hess reviews America's military commitment under Kennedy and Johnson. Lloyd C. Gardner investigates the motivations behind Johnson's escalation of force, and Robert J. McMahon focuses on the pivotal period before and after the Tet Offensive. Jeffrey P. Kimball then makes sense of Nixon's paradoxical decision to end U.S. intervention while pursuing a destructive air war. John Prados and Eric Bergerud devote essays to America's military strategy, while Helen E. Anderson and Robert K. Brigham explore the war's impact on Vietnamese women and urban culture. Melvin Small recounts the domestic tensions created by America's involvement in Vietnam, and Kenton Clymer traces the spread of the war to Laos and Cambodia. Concluding essays by Robert D. Schulzinger and George C. Herring account for the legacy of the war within Vietnamese and American contexts and diagnose the symptoms of the "Vietnam syndrome" evident in later debates about U.S. foreign policy. America's experience in Vietnam continues to figure prominently in discussions about strategy and defense, not to mention within the discourse on the identity of the United States a nation. Anderson's expert collection is therefore essential to understanding America's entanglement in the Vietnam War and the conflict's influence on the nation's interests abroad.
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The Vietnam War and its enduring historical relevance / David L. Anderson
Pt. 1. Chronological perspectives
Setting the stage : Vietnamese revolutionary nationalism and the first Vietnam War / Mark Philip Bradley
"Dealing with a government of madmen" : Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Ngo Dinh Diem / Richard H. Immerman
South Vietnam under siege, 1961-1965 : Kennedy, Johnson, and the question of escalation or disengagement / Gary R. Hess
Lyndon Johnson and the bombing of Vietnam : politics and military choices / Lloyd C. Gardner
Turning point : the Vietnam War's pivotal year, November 1967-November 1968 / Robert J. McMahon
Richard M. Nixon and the Vietnam War : the paradox of disengagement with escalation / Jeffrey P. Kimball
Pt. 2. Topical perspectives
American strategy in the Vietnam War / John Prados
The village war in Vietnam, 1965-1973 / Eric Bergerud
Fighting for family : Vietnamese women and the American war / Helen E. Anderson
Vietnamese society at war / Robert K. Brigham
"Hey, hey, LBJ!" : American domestic politics and the Vietnam War / Melvin Small
Cambodia and Laos in the Vietnam War / Kenton Clymer
Pt. 3. Postwar perspectives
The legacy of the Vietnam War / Robert D. Schulzinger
The Vietnam syndrome / George C. Herring.

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