Making sense of the Vietnam Wars : local, national, and transnational perspectives / edited by Mark Philip Bradley and Marilyn B. Young.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bradley, Mark, 1961- editor.

Young, Marilyn Blatt, editor.

Series:

Reinterpreting history.

Oxford scholarship online.

Reinterpreting history

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indochinese War, 1946-1954.

Vietnam War, 1961-1975.

Vietnam--History--1945-1975.

Vietnam.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 318 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The question why Vietnam? dominated American and Vietnamese political life for much of length of the Vietnam wars and has continued to be asked in the three decades since they ended. These essays examine the conceptual and methodological shifts that mark the contested terrain of Vietnam war scholarship.

Contents:

Pt. 1. American intervention and the Cold War consensus. Explaining the early decisions / Mark Atwood Lawrence

No place to fight a war / Seth Jacobs

Explaining the Vietnam War/ Gareth Porter

There ain't no daylight / Fredrik Logevall. Pt. 2. The coming of war in Vietnam. Through a glass darkly / Sophie Quinn-Judge

Vision, power, and agency / Edward Miller

Taking notice of the everyday / David Hunt

Co so cach mang and the social network of war / Heonik Kwon. Pt. 3. War's end and endless wars. Cold War contradictions / Lien Hang T. Nguyen

Help us tell the truth about Vietnam / Michael J. Allen

Official history, revisionist history, and wild history / David W.P. Elliott.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2008.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-771449-8

0-19-992416-3

1-281-34206-8

9786611342067

0-19-804302-3

OCLC:

437093833