Vietnam War Era

Informationen zum Autor Mitchell K. Hall is professor of history at Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, MI. Klappentext An insightful look into the immediate and long-term impact of the Vietnam War on a wide range of people and social groups, both Americans in the United States and in Vietnam.This collection of essays by highly respected social historians looks at the Vietnam War era through the eyes of the ordinary citizens caught up in those tumultuous times. Focusing on the period between 1961 and 1975-from the dramatic U.S. military escalation to the fall of Saigon-it offers fresh insight on the impact of the war on individuals on the home front and the battlefront.Each chapter of Vietnam War Era: People and Perspectives examines how a particular group of Americans interacted with the war and its related issues, among them military advisors and soldiers, the silent majority and antiwar activists, women, labor unions, African Americans, students, government leaders, veterans, the media, and religious communities. The authors draw clear connections between the stories of individual lives and the larger social movements that defined the era's human drama. Zusammenfassung An insightful look into the immediate and long-term impact of the Vietnam War on a wide range of people and social groups! both Americans in the United States and in Vietnam. Inhaltsverzeichnis Series Introduction, vii Introduction, About the Editor and Contributors, xxi Chronology, 1 Divisions within the Containment Generation: U.S. Policy Makers and the Vietnam War, Joseph A. Fry 2 "The Needs Are Enormous, the Time Short": American Advisers and the Invention of South Vietnam, 1954-1960, James M. Carter 3 Vietnam Military Personnel, Carol Reardon 4 Antiwar Activists, Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones 5 The Silent Majority, Kenneth J. Heineman 6 Religious Communities and the Vietnam War, Jill K. Gill 7 Women and the Vietnam War, Natasha Zaretsky 8 Wartime Journalists, Clarence R.Wyatt 9 African Americans and the Vietnam War, James E.Westheider 10 "Labor's Falling Dominoes": The AFL-CIO and the Vietnam War Era, Edmund F. Wehrle 11 Students and Political Activism, Caroline Hoefferle Primary Documents, Reference, Bibliography, Index, ...

Autorentext
Mitchell K. Hall is professor of history at Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, MI.

Klappentext
An insightful look into the immediate and long-term impact of the Vietnam War on a wide range of people and social groups, both Americans in the United States and in Vietnam. This collection of essays by highly respected social historians looks at the Vietnam War era through the eyes of the ordinary citizens caught up in those tumultuous times. Focusing on the period between 1961 and 1975-from the dramatic U.S. military escalation to the fall of Saigon-it offers fresh insight on the impact of the war on individuals on the home front and the battlefront. Each chapter of Vietnam War Era: People and Perspectives examines how a particular group of Americans interacted with the war and its related issues, among them military advisors and soldiers, the silent majority and antiwar activists, women, labor unions, African Americans, students, government leaders, veterans, the media, and religious communities. The authors draw clear connections between the stories of individual lives and the larger social movements that defined the era's human drama.

Inhalt
Series Introduction, vii Introduction, About the Editor and Contributors, xxi Chronology, 1 Divisions within the Containment Generation: U.S. Policy Makers and the Vietnam War, Joseph A. Fry 2 "The Needs Are Enormous, the Time Short": American Advisers and the Invention of South Vietnam, 1954-1960, James M. Carter 3 Vietnam Military Personnel, Carol Reardon 4 Antiwar Activists, Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones 5 The Silent Majority, Kenneth J. Heineman 6 Religious Communities and the Vietnam War, Jill K. Gill 7 Women and the Vietnam War, Natasha Zaretsky 8 Wartime Journalists, Clarence R.Wyatt 9 African Americans and the Vietnam War, James E.Westheider 10 "Labor's Falling Dominoes": The AFL-CIO and the Vietnam War Era, Edmund F. Wehrle 11 Students and Political Activism, Caroline Hoefferle Primary Documents, Reference, Bibliography, Index,

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