A Companion to the Vietnam War: (Wiley Blackwell Companions to American History)

A Companion to the Vietnam War contains twenty-four definitive essays on America's longest and most divisive foreign conflict. It represents the best current scholarship on this controversial and influential episode in modern American history. Highlights issues of nationalism, culture, gender, and race. Covers the breadth of Vietnam War history, including American war policies, the Vietnamese perspective, the antiwar movement, and the American home front. Surveys and evaluates the best scholarship on every important era and topic. Includes a select bibliography to guide further research.

Table of Contents:
About the Contributors viii Introduction xi 1 Hanoi’s Long Century 1 Stein Tonnesson PART 1 THE VIETNAMESE IN CONTEXT 17 2 In Search of Ho Chi Minh 19 William Duiker 3 Belated Asian Allies: The Technical and Military Contributions of Japanese Deserters (1945-50) 37 Christopher E. Goscha 4 The Realities and Consequences of War in a Northern Vietnamese Commune 65 Shaun Malarney 5 The My Tho Grapevine and the Sino-Soviet Split 79 David Hunt 6 “Vietnam” as a Women’s War 93 Karen G. Turner PART 11 THE AMERICANS  IN SOUTHEAST ASIAN CONTEXT 113 7 Before the War: Legacies from the Early Twentieth Century in United States-Vietnam Relations 115 Anne Foster 8 Franklin Roosevelt, Trusteeship, and US Exceptionalism: Reconsidering the American Vision of Postcolonial Vietnam 130 Mark Bradley 9 Dreaming Different Dreams: The United States and the Army of the Republic of Vietnam 146 Robert K. Bridham 10 JFK and the Myth of Withdrawal 162 Edwin E. Moise 11 The Politics of Escalation in Vietnam During the Johnson Years 174 Robert Buzzanco 12 A Casualty of War: The Break in American Relations with Cambodia, 1965 198 Kenton Clymer 13 The Last Casualty? Richard Nixon and the End of the Vietnam War, 1969-75 229 Lloyd Gardner 14 Remembering Nixon’s War 260 Carolyn Eisenberg 15 America’s Secret War in Laos, 1955-75 283 Alfred W McCoy PART 111 AMERICANS AT HOME AND ABROAD 315 16 Missing in Action in the Twenty-First Century 317 Bruce Franklin 17 African Americans and the Vietnam War 333 James Westheider 18 Mexican Americans and the Viet Nam War 348 George Mariscal 19 “They’ll Forgive You for Anything Except Being Weak”: Gender and US Escalation in Vietnam 1961-65 367 Robert Dean 20 The Antiwar Movement 384 Barbara Tischler 21 The Veterans Antiwar Movement in Fact and Memory 403 John Prados 22 Sanctuary!: A Bridge Between Civilian and GI Protest Against the Vietnam War 416 Michael S. Foley 23 Knowledge at War: American Social Science and Vietnam 434 Michael E. Latham 24 The War on Television: TV News, the Johnson Administration, and Vietnam 450 Chester J Pach, Jr. Select Bibliography 470 Compiled by Amy E. Blackwell Index 491

About the Author :
Marilyn B. Young is Professor of History at New York University. She is the author of Rhetoric of Empire: American China Policy (1969) and The Vietnam Wars (1991), winner of the Berkshire Women’s History Prize. She is the co-author of Transforming Russia and China: Revolutionary Struggle in the 20th Century (with William Rosenberg, 1980), Promissory Notes: Women and the Transition to Socialism (with Rayna Rapp and Sonia Kruks, 1983), and Vietnam and America (with Marvin Gettleman, Jane Franklin, and Bruce Franklin, 1995), and is the co-editor of Human Rights and Revolutions (with Lynn Hunt and Jeffrey Wasserstrom, 2000). Robert Buzzanco is Associate Professor of History at the University of Houston. He is the author of Masters of War: Military Dissent and Politics in the Vietnam Era (1996), winner of the Stuart L. Bernath Prize, and Vietnam and the Transformation of American Life (Blackwell, 1999).

Review :
“Overall, this collection will inform and challenge readers, who will discover stimulating perspectives that deliver on Young and Buzzanco’s claims, comprising a welcome addition to the literature.” History: Reviews of New Books "The quality of the essays... make it an easy recommendation to those looking at the war." Journal of American Studies “This terrific collection of twenty-four original articles is as valuable for the teacher as for the student of the Vietnam War. The contributors, who universally rank among the foremost experts on both the War and Southeast Asian history, utilize diverse frameworks and diverse sources to produce diverse perspectives. Young and Buzzanco warrant praise and thanks for assembling a volume sure to become mandatory reading.” Richard Immerman, Temple University “These stimulating essays on both the Southeast Asian and American sides of the war contribute valuable new insights into old debates, such as presidential decisions, and leading-edge investigations into new issues, such as ethnicity, gender, and memory.” David L. Anderson, University of Indianapolis