A companion to the Vietnam War [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Marilyn B. Young and Robert Buzzanco

• Pubblicazione: Malden, MA, : Blackwell Pub., 2002
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (528 p.)
• Disciplina: 959.7043; 959.7043373
• Soggetto topico: Vietnam War, 1961-1975 - United States
• Soggetto geografico: United States History 1961-1969; United States History 1969-
• Altri autori: YoungMarilyn Blatt BuzzancoRobert
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: A Companion to the Vietnam War; Contents; About the Contributors; Introduction; 1 Hanoi's Long Century; Part I The Vietnamese in Context; 2 In Search of Ho Chi Minh; 3 Belated Asian Allies: The Technical and Military Contributions of Japanese Deserters, (1945-50); 4 The Realities and Consequences of War in a Northern Vietnamese Commune; 5 The My Tho Grapevine and the Sino-Soviet Split; 6 ""Vietnam"" as a Women's War; Part II The Americans in Southeast Asian Context; 7 Before the War: Legacies from the Early Twentieth Century in United States-Vietnam Relations ; 8 Franklin Roosevelt, Trusteeship and US Exceptionalism: Reconsidering the American Vision of Postcolonial Vietnam9 Dreaming Different Dreams: The United States and the Army of the Republic of Vietnam; 10 JFK and the Myth of Withdrawal; 11 The Politics of Escalation in Vietnam During the Johnson Years; 12 A Casualty of War: The Break in American Relations with Cambodia, 1965; 13 The Last Casualty? Richard Nixon and the End of the Vietnam War, 1969-75; 14 Remembering Nixon's War; 15 America's Secret War in Laos, 1955-75; Part III Americans at Home and Abroad ; 16 Missing in Action in the Twenty-First Century17 African Americans and the Vietnam War; 18 Mexican Americans and the Viet Nam War; 19 ""They'll Forgive You for Anything Except Being Weak"": Gender and US Escalation in Vietnam 1961-65; 20 The Antiwar Movement; 21 The Veterans Antiwar Movement in Fact and Memory; 22 Sanctuary!: A Bridge Between Civilian and GI Protest Against the Vietnam War; 23 Knowledge at War: American Social Science and Vietnam; 24 The War on Television: TV News, the Johnson Administration, and Vietnam; Select Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: A Companion to the Vietnam War contains twenty-four definitive essays on America's longest and most divisive foreign conflict. It represents the best current scholarship on this controversial and influential episode in modern American history. Highlights issues of nationalism, culture, gender, and race. Covers the breadth of Vietnam War history, including American war policies, the Vietnamese perspective, the antiwar movement, and the American home front. Surveys and evaluates the best scholarship on every important era and topic. Includes
• Titolo autorizzato: A companion to the Vietnam War
• ISBN: 1-4051-6570-7; 1-78268-505-7; 1-280-74771-4; 1-4051-7866-3; 1-78034-070-2; 9786610747719; 0-470-70090-4; 0-470-99717-6; 1-4051-7204-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996210515403316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno
• Serie: Blackwell companions to American history.