Making sense of the Vietnam wars
Subtitle: local, national, and transnational perspectives
By: edited by Mark Philip Bradley and Marilyn B. Young.
Contributors: Bradley, Mark, 1961-; Young, Marilyn Blatt.
Series: Reinterpreting history
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 318
ISBN-13: 9780195315134; 9780195315141
Subjects: Indochinese War, 1946-1954; Vietnam War, 1961-1975; Vietnam -- History -- 1945-1975
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-308) and index.
Table of contents: title: Pt. 1. American intervention and the Cold War consensus. Explaining the early decisions / Mark Atwood Lawrence; title: "No place to fight a war" / Seth Jacobs; title: Explaining the Vietnam War / Gareth Porter; title: "There ain't no daylight" / Fredrik Logevall; title: Pt. 2. The coming of war in Vietnam. Through a glass darkly / Sophie Quinn-Judge; title: Vision, power, and agency / Edward Miller; title: Taking notice of the everyday / David Hunt; title: Co so cach mang and the social network of war / Heonik Kwon; title: Pt. 3. War's end and endless wars. Cold War contradictions / Lien-Hang T. Nguyen; title: "Help us tell the truth about Vietnam" / Michael J. Allen; title: Official history, revisionist history, and wild history / David W.P. Elliott.