The universe unraveling
Subtitle: American foreign policy in Cold War Laos
By: Seth Jacobs
Series: The United States in the world; United States in the world
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Ithaca
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780801445477
Subjects: Foreign relations
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A long country inhabited by lotus eaters : Washington encounters Laos; title: A soft buffer : Laos in the Eisenhower administration's grand strategy; title: Help the seemingly unhelpable : Little America and the U.S. aid program in Laos; title: Foreigners who want to enslave the country : American neocolonialism, Lao defiance; title: Doctor Tom and Mister Pop : American icons in Laos; title: Retarded children : Laos in the American popular imagination; title: No place to fight a war : Washington backs away from Laos.