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.
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Contents
Preface / Detlef Junker
Introduction: America's war and the world / Andreas W. Daum, Lloyd C. Gardner, Wilfried Mausbach
Part one. Relocating Vietnam : comparisons in time and space
Colonial war in a postcolonial era: the United States' occupation of Vietnam / Michael Adas
Visions of the Asian periphery: Vietnam (1964-1968) and the Philippines (1898-1900) / Fabian Hilfrich
Challenge of revolutions and the emergence of nation-states: British reactions to the foundation of the United States and American responses to the socialist republic of Vietnam, 1780-1980 / T. Christopher Jespersen
Peripheral war: a recipe for disaster? The United States in Vietnam and Japan in China / John Prados
Panmunjom and Paris armistices: patterns of war termination / Jeffrey Kimball
Versailles and Vietnam: coming to terms with war / Sabine Behrenbeck
Part two. International relations and the dynamics of alliance politics
Who paid for America's war? Vietnam and the international monetary system, 1960-1975 / Hubert Zimmermann
America isolated: the Western powers and the escalation of the war / Fredrik Logevall
Bamboo in the shadows: relations between the United States and Thailand during the Vietnam War / Arne Kislenko
Strategic concerns of a regional power: Australia's involvement in the Vietnam War / Peter Edwards
People's warfare versus peaceful coexistence: Vietnam and the Sino-Soviet struggle for ideological supremacy / Eva-Maria Stolberg
Part three. Recasting Vietnam: domestic scenes and discourses
Center-left government in Italy and the escalation of the Vietnam War / Leopoldo Nuti
Auschwitz and Vietnam: West German protest against America's war during the 1960s / Wilfried Mausbach
World peace council and the antiwar movement in East Germany / Günter Wernike
All power to the imagination! Antiwar activism and emerging feminism in the late 1960s / Barbara L. Tischler
Vietnam: many wars? / Lloyd C. Gardner.
Other title(s)
America, the Vietnam War, & the World
Cambridge University Press. History.
ISBN
9781139052368 (ebook)
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