The Columbia Guide to the Vietnam War / / David Anderson.
More than a quarter of a century after the last Marine Corps Huey left the American embassy in Saigon, the lessons and legacies of the most divisive war in twentieth-century American history are as hotly debated as ever. Why did successive administrations choose little-known Vietnam as the "tes...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2002] ©2002 |
| Year of Publication: | 2002 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Columbia Guides to American History and Cultures
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (352 p.) :; 4 maps,12 tables |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Abbreviations
- PART I. HISTORICAL NARRATIVE
- 1. Studying the vietnam war
- 2. Vietnam: Historical Background
- 3. United States: Historical Background
- 4. The French War in Vietnam
- 5. The Diem Years: Eisenhower
- 6. The Diem Years: Kennedy
- 7. The American War in Vietnam: Escalation
- 8. The American War in Vietnam: Strategy
- 9. The American War in Vietnam: The Limits of Power
- 10. The American War in Vietnam: De-escalation
- 11. The War That Will Not Go Away
- PART II. THE VIETNAM WAR FROM A TO Z
- The Vietnam War from A to Z
- PART III. CHRONOLOGY
- Chronology
- PART IV. RESOURCE GUIDE
- 1. General Works
- 2. History of Southeast Asia and U.S. Foreign Relations
- 3. The Diem Years
- 4. North Vietnam and the Vietcong
- 5. Escalation of the American War
- 6. The American Way of War
- 7. The Limits of American Power
- 8. The End of the American War
- 9. The Legacy of the Vietnam War
- 10. Films and Documentaries
- 11. Electronic Resources
- PART V. APPENDICES
- Appendix 1. Documents
- Appendix 2. Statistics
- Index