Vietnam Is fighting for us: French identities and the U.S. - Vietnam War, 1965-1973
Journal: Carolina Digital Repository (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Year: 2019

My dissertation, Vietnam Is Fighting for Us, examines French reactions to the U.S.- Vietnam War to determine how French national identities emerged in the key post-colonial era of 1965-1973. By an analysis of social movements and political groups on the right and the left, my work illuminates the dialogic interactions of past understanding and present action which shaped France in the Fifth Republic. The study of French reactions to the war challenges current historiography on France in the pre-