Assuming the burden : Europe and the American commitment to war in Vietnam /
This beautifully crafted and solidly researched book explains why and how the United States made its first commitment to Vietnam in the late 1940s. Mark Atwood Lawrence deftly explores the process by which the Western powers set aside their fierce disagreements over colonialism and extended the Cold...
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Berkeley :
University of California Press
©2005.
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| Sarja: | From Indochina to Vietnam ;
v. 1. |
| Linkit: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1pnfw3 |
Sisällysluettelo:
- Contesting Vietnam
- Visions of Indochina and the world
- U.S. assistance and its limits
- Illusions of autonomy
- Constructing Vietnam
- Crisis renewed
- Domestic divides, foreign solutions
- Closing the circle.