Tours of Vietnam
Subtitle: war, travel guides, and memory
By: Scott Laderman.
Series: American encounters/global interactions
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Durham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 289
ISBN-13: 9780822343967; 9780822344148
Subjects: Tourism -- Vietnam -- History -- 20th century; Americans -- Vietnam; Vietnam -- History -- 20th century; Vietnam -- Politics and government -- 1945-1975; United States -- Relations -- Vietnam; Vietnam -- Relations -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : history, tourism, and the question of empire; title: Tourism and state legitimacy in the Republic of Vietnam; title: Educating private Ryan : tourism and the United States military in postcolonial; title: Vietnam; title: "They set about revenging themselves on the population" : the "Hue massacre"; title: And the shaping of historical consciousness; title: The new modernizers : naturalizing capitalism in Doi Moi Vietnam; title: "The other side of the war" : memory and meaning at the War Remnants Museum; title: Epilogue :  tourism and the martial fascination.