America, the Vietnam War, and the World: Comparative and International PerspectivesAndreas W. Daum, Lloyd C. Gardner, Wilfried Mausbach Publisher's description: "This book presents new perspectives on the Vietnam War, its global repercussions, and the role of this war in modern history. The volume reveals 'America's War' as an international event that reverberated all over the world: in domestic settings of numerous nation-states, combatants and non-combatants alike, as well as in transnational relations and alliance systems. The volume thereby covers a wide geographical range-from Berkeley and Berlin to Cambodia and Canberra. The essays address political, military, and diplomatic issues no less than cultural and intellectual consequences of 'Vietnam'. The authors also set the Vietnam War in comparison to other major conflicts in world history; they cover over three centuries, and develop general insights into the tragedies and trajectories of military conflicts as phenomena of modern societies in general. For the first time, 'America's War' is thus depicted as a truly global event whose origins and characteristics deserve an interdisciplinary treatment." |
Contents
A Colonial War in a Postcolonial Era The United States Occupation of Vietnam | 27 |
Visions of the Asian Periphery Vietnam 19641968 and the Philippines 18981900 | 43 |
The Challenge of Revolutions and the Emergence of NationStates British Reactions to the Foundation of the United States and American Responses to... | 65 |
Peripheral War A Recipe for Disaster? The United States in Vietnam and Japan in China | 89 |
The Panmunjom and Paris Armistices Patterns of War Termination | 105 |
Versailles and Vietnam Coming to Terms with War | 123 |
Who Paid for Americas War? Vietnam and the International Monetary System 19601975 | 151 |
America Isolated The Western Powers and the Escalation of the War | 175 |
The Strategic Concerns of a Regional Power Australias Involvement in the Vietnam War | 221 |
Peoples Warfare Versus Peaceful Coexistence Vietnam and the SinoSoviet Struggle for Ideological Supremacy | 237 |
The CenterLeft Government in Italy and the Escalation of the Vietnam War | 259 |
Auschwitz and Vietnam West German Protest Against Americas War During the 1960s | 279 |
The World Peace Council and the Antiwar Movement in East Germany | 299 |
All Power to the Imagination Antiwar Activism and Emerging Feminism in the Late 1960s | 321 |
Vietnam Many Wars? | 341 |
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Bamboo in the Shadows Relations Between the United States and Thailand During the Vietnam War | 197 |
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References to this book
Unintended Consequences: The United States at War Kenneth J. Hagan,Ian J. Bickerton Limited preview - 2007 |