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Author Anderson, David L., 1946-
Title The Columbia guide to the Vietnam War / David L. Anderson.
Publication Info New York : Columbia University Press, ©2002.


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Contents Cover; Half title; Series Page; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; List of Abbreviations; Part I: Historical Narrative; Chapter 1. Studying the Vietnam War; Chapter 2. Vietnam: Historical Background; Roots of the Vietnamese Culture and State; The Impact of French Colonialism; The Rise of Vietnamese Nationalism; The Origins of Vietnamese Communism; Chapter 3. United States: Historical Background; Idealism and Realism in U.S. Foreign Policy; The United States and the Open Door in Asia; The World Wars: The Legacies of Wilson and Munich; The Origins of the Cold War.
Chapter 4. The French War in VietnamThe August Revolution; Outbreak of the Franco-Vietminh War; U.S. Support of France in Indochina; Dienbienphu and the Geneva Conference; Chapter 5. The Diem Years: Eisenhower; The Decision to Back Ngo Dinh Diem; The Non-election of 1956; The Illusion of Nation Building; NLF: Rise of the Southern Insurgency; Chapter 6. The Diem Years: Kennedy; Counterinsurgency Warfare; The Buddhist Crisis; The Diem Assassination; What If Kennedy Had Lived?; Chapter 7. The American War in Vietnam: Escalation; The Gulf of Tonkin Incident; Rolling Thunder.
Johnson Decides on a Land War in AsiaTheories of Causation; Chapter 8. The American War in Vietnam: Strategy; The Draft; Attrition Strategy and Body Count; Humpin' It: The American Soldier; The Air War; Diplomacy; The Resilient Enemy; Chapter 9. The American War in Vietnam: The Limits of Power; The Tet Offensive; The Antiwar Movement and the Media; Johnson's Decision to Stop Escalation; The Presidential Election of 1968; Chapter 10. The American War in Vietnam: De-escalation; Vietnamization and More Bombing; Cambodia and Kent State; Negotiations and the Paris Peace Accords.
DRV Victory in 1975Chapter 11. The War That Will Not Go Away; The Postwar Wars in Southeast Asia; American Vietnam Veterans; Films, Fiction, and Poetry; Postmortems; Part II: The Vietnam War from A to Z; Part III: Chronology; Part IV: Resource Guide; 1. General Works; Bibliographies and Historiographical Essays; Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, and Atlases; Surveys and Syntheses; Document Collections; Biographies; Memoirs; Oral Histories; 2. History of Southeast Asia and U.S. Foreign Relations; General History of Vietnam; History of U.S. Foreign Relations; The French Indochina War.
Laos and Cambodia3. The Diem Years; 4. North Vietnam and the Vietcong; 5. Escalation of the American War; The Gulf of Tonkin Incident; Lyndon Johnson's Decisions for War; 6. The American Way of War; Military Operations and Overviews; My Lai Massacre; Pacification and Counterinsurgency; International Setting; 7. The Limits of American Power; Antiwar Movement; American Politics and Economy; Television and the Press; The Tet Offensive; 8. The End of the American War; Richard Nixon's War and Diplomacy; The End of South Vietnam; 9. The Legacy of the Vietnam War; Lessons and Postmortems.
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ISBN 0231507380 (electronic bk.)
9780231507387 (electronic bk.)
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Author Anderson, David L., 1946-
Series Columbia guides to American history and cultures
Columbia guides to American history and cultures.
Subject Vietnam War, 1961-1975.
Descript 1 online resource (xiv, 308 pages) : maps.
Content text txt
Media computer c
Carrier online resource cr
Descript data file rda
Bibliography
Handbook
Contents Cover; Half title; Series Page; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; List of Abbreviations; Part I: Historical Narrative; Chapter 1. Studying the Vietnam War; Chapter 2. Vietnam: Historical Background; Roots of the Vietnamese Culture and State; The Impact of French Colonialism; The Rise of Vietnamese Nationalism; The Origins of Vietnamese Communism; Chapter 3. United States: Historical Background; Idealism and Realism in U.S. Foreign Policy; The United States and the Open Door in Asia; The World Wars: The Legacies of Wilson and Munich; The Origins of the Cold War.
Chapter 4. The French War in VietnamThe August Revolution; Outbreak of the Franco-Vietminh War; U.S. Support of France in Indochina; Dienbienphu and the Geneva Conference; Chapter 5. The Diem Years: Eisenhower; The Decision to Back Ngo Dinh Diem; The Non-election of 1956; The Illusion of Nation Building; NLF: Rise of the Southern Insurgency; Chapter 6. The Diem Years: Kennedy; Counterinsurgency Warfare; The Buddhist Crisis; The Diem Assassination; What If Kennedy Had Lived?; Chapter 7. The American War in Vietnam: Escalation; The Gulf of Tonkin Incident; Rolling Thunder.
Johnson Decides on a Land War in AsiaTheories of Causation; Chapter 8. The American War in Vietnam: Strategy; The Draft; Attrition Strategy and Body Count; Humpin' It: The American Soldier; The Air War; Diplomacy; The Resilient Enemy; Chapter 9. The American War in Vietnam: The Limits of Power; The Tet Offensive; The Antiwar Movement and the Media; Johnson's Decision to Stop Escalation; The Presidential Election of 1968; Chapter 10. The American War in Vietnam: De-escalation; Vietnamization and More Bombing; Cambodia and Kent State; Negotiations and the Paris Peace Accords.
DRV Victory in 1975Chapter 11. The War That Will Not Go Away; The Postwar Wars in Southeast Asia; American Vietnam Veterans; Films, Fiction, and Poetry; Postmortems; Part II: The Vietnam War from A to Z; Part III: Chronology; Part IV: Resource Guide; 1. General Works; Bibliographies and Historiographical Essays; Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, and Atlases; Surveys and Syntheses; Document Collections; Biographies; Memoirs; Oral Histories; 2. History of Southeast Asia and U.S. Foreign Relations; General History of Vietnam; History of U.S. Foreign Relations; The French Indochina War.
Laos and Cambodia3. The Diem Years; 4. North Vietnam and the Vietcong; 5. Escalation of the American War; The Gulf of Tonkin Incident; Lyndon Johnson's Decisions for War; 6. The American Way of War; Military Operations and Overviews; My Lai Massacre; Pacification and Counterinsurgency; International Setting; 7. The Limits of American Power; Antiwar Movement; American Politics and Economy; Television and the Press; The Tet Offensive; 8. The End of the American War; Richard Nixon's War and Diplomacy; The End of South Vietnam; 9. The Legacy of the Vietnam War; Lessons and Postmortems.
Note Unlimited number of concurrent users. UkHlHU
ISBN 0231507380 (electronic bk.)
9780231507387 (electronic bk.)
Other # EB00662317 Recorded Books
Author Anderson, David L., 1946-
Series Columbia guides to American history and cultures
Columbia guides to American history and cultures.
Subject Vietnam War, 1961-1975.

Subject Vietnam War, 1961-1975.
Descript 1 online resource (xiv, 308 pages) : maps.
Content text txt
Media computer c
Carrier online resource cr
Descript data file rda
Bibliography
Handbook
Contents Cover; Half title; Series Page; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; List of Abbreviations; Part I: Historical Narrative; Chapter 1. Studying the Vietnam War; Chapter 2. Vietnam: Historical Background; Roots of the Vietnamese Culture and State; The Impact of French Colonialism; The Rise of Vietnamese Nationalism; The Origins of Vietnamese Communism; Chapter 3. United States: Historical Background; Idealism and Realism in U.S. Foreign Policy; The United States and the Open Door in Asia; The World Wars: The Legacies of Wilson and Munich; The Origins of the Cold War.
Chapter 4. The French War in VietnamThe August Revolution; Outbreak of the Franco-Vietminh War; U.S. Support of France in Indochina; Dienbienphu and the Geneva Conference; Chapter 5. The Diem Years: Eisenhower; The Decision to Back Ngo Dinh Diem; The Non-election of 1956; The Illusion of Nation Building; NLF: Rise of the Southern Insurgency; Chapter 6. The Diem Years: Kennedy; Counterinsurgency Warfare; The Buddhist Crisis; The Diem Assassination; What If Kennedy Had Lived?; Chapter 7. The American War in Vietnam: Escalation; The Gulf of Tonkin Incident; Rolling Thunder.
Johnson Decides on a Land War in AsiaTheories of Causation; Chapter 8. The American War in Vietnam: Strategy; The Draft; Attrition Strategy and Body Count; Humpin' It: The American Soldier; The Air War; Diplomacy; The Resilient Enemy; Chapter 9. The American War in Vietnam: The Limits of Power; The Tet Offensive; The Antiwar Movement and the Media; Johnson's Decision to Stop Escalation; The Presidential Election of 1968; Chapter 10. The American War in Vietnam: De-escalation; Vietnamization and More Bombing; Cambodia and Kent State; Negotiations and the Paris Peace Accords.
DRV Victory in 1975Chapter 11. The War That Will Not Go Away; The Postwar Wars in Southeast Asia; American Vietnam Veterans; Films, Fiction, and Poetry; Postmortems; Part II: The Vietnam War from A to Z; Part III: Chronology; Part IV: Resource Guide; 1. General Works; Bibliographies and Historiographical Essays; Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, and Atlases; Surveys and Syntheses; Document Collections; Biographies; Memoirs; Oral Histories; 2. History of Southeast Asia and U.S. Foreign Relations; General History of Vietnam; History of U.S. Foreign Relations; The French Indochina War.
Laos and Cambodia3. The Diem Years; 4. North Vietnam and the Vietcong; 5. Escalation of the American War; The Gulf of Tonkin Incident; Lyndon Johnson's Decisions for War; 6. The American Way of War; Military Operations and Overviews; My Lai Massacre; Pacification and Counterinsurgency; International Setting; 7. The Limits of American Power; Antiwar Movement; American Politics and Economy; Television and the Press; The Tet Offensive; 8. The End of the American War; Richard Nixon's War and Diplomacy; The End of South Vietnam; 9. The Legacy of the Vietnam War; Lessons and Postmortems.
Note Unlimited number of concurrent users. UkHlHU
ISBN 0231507380 (electronic bk.)
9780231507387 (electronic bk.)
Other # EB00662317 Recorded Books
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