Making Sense of the Vietnam Wars : Local, National, and Transnational Perspectives Paperback / softback
Edited by Mark Philip (Associate Professor of History, Associate Professor of History, Northwestern U Bradley, Marilyn B. (Professor of History, Professor of History, New York University) Young
Part of the Reinterpreting History: How Historical Assessments Change over Time series
Paperback / softback
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Making sense of the wars for Vietnam has had a long history.
The question why Vietnam? dominated American and Vietnamese political life for much of length of the Vietnam wars and has continued to be asked in the three decades since they ended.
The essays in this inaugural volume of the National History Centres book series Reinterpreting History examine the conceptual and methodological shifts that mark the contested terrain of Vietnam war scholarship.
They range from top-down reconsiderations of critical decision-making moments in Washington, Hanoi, and Saigon to microhistories of the war that explore its meanings from the bottom up.
Some draw on recently available Vietnamese-language archival materials.
Others mine new primary sources in the United States or from France, Great Britain, the former Soviet Union, China, and Eastern Europe.
Collectively, these essays map the interpretative histories of the Vietnam wars: past, present, and future.
They also raise questions about larger meanings and the ongoing relevance of the wars for Vietnam in American, Vietnamese, and international histories of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:336 pages
- Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc
- Publication Date:15/05/2008
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- ISBN:9780195315141
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:336 pages
- Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc
- Publication Date:15/05/2008
- Category:
- ISBN:9780195315141
