The wars we took to Vietnam : cultural conflict and storytelling /
What Americans refer to as the Vietnam War embraces much more than the conflict with North Vietnam. Milton J. Bates considers the other conflicts that Americans brought to that war: the divisions stemming from differences in race, class, sex, generation, and frontier ideology. In exploring the rich...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press
©1996.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.5973019 |
| Summary: | What Americans refer to as the Vietnam War embraces much more than the conflict with North Vietnam. Milton J. Bates considers the other conflicts that Americans brought to that war: the divisions stemming from differences in race, class, sex, generation, and frontier ideology. In exploring the rich vein of writing and film that emerged from the Vietnam War era, he strikingly illuminates how these stories reflect American social crises of the period. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 328 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-314) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780520917521 0520917529 0585114536 9780585114538 0520204328 0520204336 |