Making sense of the Vietnam wars [[electronic resource] ] : local, national, and transnational perspectives / / edited by Mark Philip Bradley and Marilyn B. Young

• Pubblicazione: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (331 p.)
• Disciplina: 959.704/1
• Soggetto topico: Indochinese War, 1946-1954; Vietnam War, 1961-1975
• Soggetto geografico: Vietnam History 1945-1975
• Altri autori: BradleyMark <1961-> YoungMarilyn Blatt
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Editors and Contributors; Introduction: Making Sense of the Vietnam Wars; PART I: American Intervention and the Cold War Consensus; PART II: The Coming of War in Vietnam; PART III: War's End and Endless Wars; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 resear
• Titolo autorizzato: Making sense of the Vietnam wars
• ISBN: 0-19-771449-8; 0-19-992416-3; 1-281-34206-8; 9786611342067; 0-19-804302-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910781828503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Reinterpreting history.