The Columbia history of the Vietnam War
By: edited, with an introduction, by David L. Anderson
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 462
ISBN-13: 9780231134804; 9780231509329
Other titles: Columbia history of the Vietnam War
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: The Vietnam War and its enduring historical relevance / David L. Anderson; title: pt. 1. Chronological perspectives; title: Setting the stage : Vietnamese revolutionary nationalism and the first Vietnam War / Mark Philip Bradley; title: "Dealing with a government of madmen" : Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Ngo Dinh Diem / Richard H. Immerman; title: South Vietnam under siege, 1961-1965 : Kennedy, Johnson, and the question of escalation or disengagement / Gary R. Hess; title: Lyndon Johnson and the bombing of Vietnam : politics and military choices / Lloyd C. Gardner; title: Turning point : the Vietnam War's pivotal year, November 1967-November 1968 / Robert J. McMahon; title: Richard M. Nixon and the Vietnam War : the paradox of disengagement with escalation / Jeffrey P. Kimball; title: pt. 2. Topical perspectives; title: American strategy in the Vietnam War / John Prados; title: The village war in Vietnam, 1965-1973 / Eric Bergerud; title: Fighting for family : Vietnamese women and the American war / Helen E. Anderson; title: Vietnamese society at war / Robert K. Brigham; title: "Hey, hey, LBJ!" : American domestic politics and the Vietnam War / Melvin Small; title: Cambodia and Laos in the Vietnam War / Kenton Clymer; title: pt. 3. Postwar perspectives; title: The legacy of the Vietnam War / Robert D. Schulzinger; title: The Vietnam syndrome / George C. Herring.