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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Bates, Milton J.
Format: Licensed eBooks
Langue:anglais
Publié: Berkeley : University of California Press ©1996.
Accès en ligne:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.5973019
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Résumé: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.
Description matérielle:1 online resource (x, 328 pages)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-314) and index.
ISBN:9780520917521
0520917529
0585114536
9780585114538
0520204328
0520204336