The Columbia History of the Vietnam War

Zusammenfassung The Columbia History of the Vietnam War offers new perspectives on the political! historical! military! and social issues that defined the war and its effect on the United States and Vietnam. This collection with contributions by leading scholars is essential to understanding America's entanglement in the Vietnam War and the history of modern Vietnam.

Autorentext
David L. Anderson is professor of history at California State University, Monterey Bay, and past president of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations. His books include Trapped by Success: The Eisenhower Administration and Vietnam and The Columbia Guide to the Vietnam War.

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Preface Abbreviations Introduction: The Vietnam War and Its Enduring Historical Relevance David L. Anderson Part I. Chronological Perspectives 1. Setting the Stage: Vietnamese Revolutionary Nationalism and the First Vietnam War Mark Philip Bradley 2. "Dealing with a Government of Madmen": Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Ngo Dinh Diem Richard H. Immerman 3. South Vietnam Under Siege, 1961--1965: Kennedy, Johnson, and the Question of Escalation or Disengagement Gary R. Hess 4. Lyndon Johnson and the Bombing of Vietnam: Politics and Military Choices Lloyd C. Gardner 5. Turning Point: The Vietnam War's Pivotal Year, November 1967--November 1968 Robert J. McMahon 6. Richard M. Nixon and the Vietnam War: The Paradox of Disengagement with Escalation Jeffrey P. Kimball Part II. Topical Perspectives 7. American Strategy in the Vietnam War John Prados 8. The Village War in Vietnam, 1965--1973 Eric Bergerud 9. Fighting for Family: Vietnamese Women and the American War Helen E. Anderson 10. Vietnamese Society at War Robert K. Brigham 11. "Hey, Hey, LBJ!": American Domestic Politics and the Vietnam War Melvin Small 12. Cambodia and Laos in the Vietnam War Kenton Clymer Part III. Postwar Perspectives 13. The Legacy of the Vietnam War Robert D. Schulzinger 14. The Vietnam Syndrome George C. Herring List of Contributors Index

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