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| Author | : William R. Haycraft |
| Publisher | : McFarland |
| Total Pages | : 272 |
| Release | : 2015-01-09 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1476621071 |
The Vietnam War coincided with, and in many ways caused, an enormous cultural schism in the United States. Now, as then, scholarship is divided over the efficacy of American Cold War strategy, its ability to halt the spread of communism in Southeast Asia and the role the United States should have played in the struggle for a unified, socialist Vietnam. This book represents a new historical take on the Vietnam War. After a lengthy description of the war's historical backdrop, the book examines the origins of American involvement under the Truman and Eisenhower administrations, Kennedy's advancement toward direct conflict between the U.S. and guerrilla and regular North Vietnamese forces, and the dramatic troop buildup under Johnson. The final chapters discuss peace negotiations during Nixon's presidency, the ultimate American failure in Indochina, and the region in the aftermath of war. Throughout, the work argues that the war was necessary and winnable under better circumstances and leadership. The book includes an extensive bibliography.
| Author | : Seth S. Jacobs |
| Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
| Total Pages | : 327 |
| Release | : 2012-05-15 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 080146451X |
During the Eisenhower and Kennedy administrations, Laos was positioned to become a major front in the Cold War. Yet American policymakers ultimately chose to resist communism in neighboring South Vietnam instead. Two generations of historians have explained this decision by citing logistical considerations. Laos's landlocked, mountainous terrain, they hold, made the kingdom an unpropitious place to fight, while South Vietnam—possessing a long coastline, navigable rivers, and all-weather roads—better accommodated America's military forces. The Universe Unraveling is a provocative reinterpretation of U.S.-Laos relations in the years leading up to the Vietnam War. Seth Jacobs argues that Laos boasted several advantages over South Vietnam as a battlefield, notably its thousand-mile border with Thailand, whose leader was willing to allow Washington to use his nation as a base from which to attack the communist Pathet Lao.More significant in determining U.S. policy in Southeast Asia than strategic appraisals of the Laotian landscape were cultural perceptions of the Lao people. Jacobs contends that U.S. policy toward Laos under Eisenhower and Kennedy cannot be understood apart from the traits Americans ascribed to their Lao allies. Drawing on diplomatic correspondence and the work of iconic figures like "celebrity saint" Tom Dooley, Jacobs finds that the characteristics American statesmen and the American media attributed to the Lao—laziness, immaturity, and cowardice—differed from the traits assigned the South Vietnamese, making Lao chances of withstanding communist aggression appear dubious. The Universe Unraveling combines diplomatic, cultural, and military history to provide a new perspective on how prejudice can shape policy decisions and even the course of history.
| Author | : James F. Marsh |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 170 |
| Release | : 2010-10 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9780978564803 |
Snapshots of Vietnam: the Unraveling of a Non-Combatant tells the true story of Jim Marsh's thirteen months in Vietnam in a series of vignettes that capture his internal war as well as the external bloodshed. Marsh shows the war through these literary photos that are both poetic and profound in their brevity and simplicity. Each piece captures a scene, and when put all together the book as a whole shows a young man falling apart as he is broken physically and mentally.Thirty-five years after returning from the war, Marsh begins to heal by writing down these images that have haunted him all these years. And the reader is also healed in the process.
| Author | : Michael Jakob |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 364 |
| Release | : 2022 |
| Genre | : Coal mines and mining |
| ISBN | : 9780367491048 |
This volume provides an overview of the political economy of coal in diverse country contexts. Coal is the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions globally, accounting for about 40 percent of energy-related CO2 emissions. Continued construction of coal-fired power plants could make the climate targets of the Paris Agreement infeasible to achieve. In spite of sharply declining costs for renewable energy sources, many countries still heavily rely on coal to meet their energy demand. The predominance of coal can only be adequately understood in light of the political factors that determine energy policy formulation. To this end, this edited volume assembles a wide variety of case studies exploring the political economy of coal for across the globe. These includes industrial and developing nations, coal importers and exporters as well as countries that are either substantial coal users, are just beginning to ramp up their capacities, or have already initiated a coal phase-out. Importantly, all case studies are structured along a unifying framework that focuses on the central actors driving energy policy formulation, their main objectives as well as the context that determines to what extent they can influence policy making. This large set of comparable studies will permit drawing conclusions regarding key similarities as well as differences driving coal use in different countries. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of energy, climate change, resource management, and sustainable development. It will also appeal to practitioners and policymakers involved in sustainable development.
| Author | : Michael Joe Allen |
| Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
| Total Pages | : 449 |
| Release | : 2009 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0807832618 |
Reveals how wartime loss in the Vietnam War transformed U.S. politics, arguing that the effort to recover lost warriors was as much a means to establish responsibility for their loss as it was a search for answers about their fate.
| Author | : Helen Nguyen Pho |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 742 |
| Release | : 2015 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : |
This dissertation argues that military and political decisions made by U.S. policymakers to wage war in Vietnam produced economic consequences that severely undermined the entire American objective of preserving an independent, anticommunist South Vietnam. The escalation of war in 1965 ultimately sent over two million Americans to serve in combat or support roles in South Vietnam. The overwhelming presence of Americans, which peaked at over half a million in January 1969, in turn created numerous problems for the urban South Vietnamese population. The extraordinary amount of wealth brought into South Vietnam, including in the form of commodities, foreign aid, and American soldiers’ purchasing power, disrupted South Vietnamese society and economy. Due to high levels of inflation, the sudden influx of American wealth into a small developing country created incentives for South Vietnamese to work for the Americans, who provided better compensation than South Vietnamese employers. Those who worked for the South Vietnamese state in the armed forces and the civil service received fixed incomes and could not keep pace with growing wartime inflation. The inundation of American soldiers and dollars into the country also led to widespread corruption both among Americans and South Vietnamese, which I argue was destructive to state legitimacy in South Vietnam. Oftentimes, South Vietnamese citizens had to make the morally difficult choice to engage in corrupt actions in order to support their families. The American presence thus exacerbated socioeconomic inequality in South Vietnam and contributed to eroding the national morale of those tasked with serving and fighting on behalf of their country.
| Author | : Andreas W. Daum |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 390 |
| Release | : 2003-07-14 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780521008761 |
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."
| Author | : Edmund F. Wehrle |
| Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
| Total Pages | : 321 |
| Release | : 2010-02-11 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0472025791 |
Between a River and a Mountain details American labor's surprisingly complex relationship to the American war in Vietnam. Breaking from the simplistic story of "hard hat patriotism," Wehrle uses newly released archival material to demonstrate the AFL-CIO's continuing dedication to social, political, and economic reform in Vietnam. The complex, sometimes turbulent, relationship between American union leaders and their counterparts in the Vietnamese Confederation of Labor (known as the CVT) led to dangerous political compromises: the AFL-CIO eventually accepted much-needed support for their Vietnamese activities from the CIA, while the CVT's need to sustain their relationship with the Americans lured them into entanglements with a succession of corrupt Saigon governments. Although the story's endpoint--the painfully divided and weakened labor movement of the 1970s--may be familiar, Wehrle offers an entirely new understanding of the historical forces leading up to that decline, unraveling his story with considerable sophistication and narrative skill. "Stunning in its research and sophisticated in its analysis, Between a River and a Mountain is one of the best studies we have of labor and the Vietnam War." --Robert K. Brigham, Shirley Ecker Boskey Professor of History and International Relations, Vassar College "Skillfully blending diplomatic and labor history, Wehrle's book is a valuable contribution to the ever-widening literature on the Vietnam War." --George Herring, University of Kentucky "Wehrle has written a compelling and original study of the AFL-CIO, the South Vietnamese labor movement and the Vietnam War." --Judith Stein, Professor of History, City College and Graduate School of the City University of New York "With this important book, Edmund Wehrle gives us the first full-fledged scholarly examination of organized labor's relationship to the Vietnam War. Based on deep research in U.S. and foreign archives, and presented in clear and graceful prose, Between a River and a Mountain adds a great deal to our understanding of how the AFL-CIO approached the war and in turn was fundamentally altered by its staunch support for Americanization. Nor is it merely an American story that Wehrle tells, for he also presents fascinating information on the Vietnamese Confederation of Labor and its sometimes-strained relations with U.S. labor." --Fredrik Logevall, Cornell University Edmund F. Wehrle is Assistant Professor of History, Eastern Illinois University.
| Author | : Seth Jacobs |
| Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
| Total Pages | : 328 |
| Release | : 2012-05-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0801464048 |
During the Eisenhower and Kennedy administrations, Laos was positioned to become a major front in the Cold War. Yet American policymakers ultimately chose to resist communism in neighboring South Vietnam instead. Two generations of historians have explained this decision by citing logistical considerations. Laos's landlocked, mountainous terrain, they hold, made the kingdom an unpropitious place to fight, while South Vietnam-possessing a long coastline, navigable rivers, and all-weather roads-better accommodated America's military forces. The Universe Unraveling is a provocative reinterpretation of U.S.-Laos relations in the years leading up to the Vietnam War. Seth Jacobs argues that Laos boasted several advantages over South Vietnam as a battlefield, notably its thousand-mile border with Thailand, whose leader was willing to allow Washington to use his nation as a base from which to attack the communist Pathet Lao. More significant in determining U.S. policy in Southeast Asia than strategic appraisals of the Laotian landscape were cultural perceptions of the Lao people. Jacobs contends that U.S. policy toward Laos under Eisenhower and Kennedy cannot be understood apart from the traits Americans ascribed to their Lao allies. Drawing on diplomatic correspondence and the work of iconic figures like "celebrity saint" Tom Dooley, Jacobs finds that the characteristics American statesmen and the American media attributed to the Lao-laziness, immaturity, and cowardice-differed from the traits assigned the South Vietnamese, making Lao chances of withstanding communist aggression appear dubious. The Universe Unraveling combines diplomatic, cultural, and military history to provide a new perspective on how prejudice can shape policy decisions and even the course of history.
| Author | : Joseph Miller |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2024-01-10 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9781963138924 |
My book, "A History of the Vietnam Civil War," provides an insightful exploration spanning chapters 1 through 13, meticulously unraveling Vietnam's journey from its inception to the present day. It meticulously examines pivotal events and developments that have shaped Vietnam's trajectory, offering a detailed narrative against the backdrop of global events from World War I to World War II and beyond.Throughout its pages, readers will encounter significant historical shifts, including the Great Depression and the unprecedented mechanization of agriculture in the United States. This period not only led to overproduction of crops but also resulted in widespread unemployment, profoundly affecting economies worldwide. Additionally, the narrative delves into the Communist Revolution in the Imperial Russian Empire, the emergence of the Soviet Union, and its global expansionist ambitions through the promotion of communist ideology.Amidst these geopolitical transformations, the book highlights the emergence of nuclear weaponry and the ensuing arms race between the United States, the Soviet Union, and China. This era also witnessed the proliferation of intercontinental ballistic missiles, reshaping global power dynamics. Furthermore, readers will explore the intricate involvement of the United States in French Indochina, particularly during the Japanese invasion and subsequent events leading to the First Indochina War, offering insight into the complexities of international interventions in the region.
