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The Vietnam War

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  • © 1998
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Editors:
  1. Peter Lowe

    1. University of Manchester, UK

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  • Provides a balanced, comparative and internationally focused survey of the Vietnam War
    The editor and the contributors are all renowned experts in the field
    Concise volume in a field where the standard surveys are voluminous

Part of the book series: Problems in Focus: Manchester (PIFM)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction

    • Peter Lowe
    Pages 1-8

  3. Origins and Alternatives: Comments, Counter-Facts and Commitments

    • Anthony Short
    Pages 9-29

  4. Coping with the United States: Hanoi’s Search for an Effective Strategy

    • Nguyen Vu Tung
    Pages 30-61

  5. South Vietnam

    • Ngo Vinh Long
    Pages 62-94

  6. The United States and Vietnam

    • David L. Anderson
    Pages 95-114

  7. The Anti Vietnam War Movement in the United States

    • Tom Wells
    Pages 115-132

  8. Developing an Alliance: The Soviet Union and Vietnam, 1954–75

    • Ilya V. Gaiduk
    Pages 133-151

  9. China and the Vietnam Wars

    • Chen Jian
    Pages 152-180

  10. Australia and the Vietnam War

    • Carl Bridge
    Pages 181-195

  11. International Aspects of the Vietnam War

    • Alastair Parker
    Pages 196-218

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 219-253
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About this book

Whether viewed as a proxy encounter in the Cold War or as one of the last colonial wars, the conflict in Vietnam continues to attract enormous attention as one of the most divisive and traumatic events of the post-World War II period. For too long, the issues have tended to revolve almost exclusively around American culpability: the immolation of the US of an otherwise blameless region for reasons of incompetent Realpolitik (the view of one camp) or the terrible American sacrifice which blunted forever Communism's ability to expand into the rest of Asia (the view of the other).
With the end of the Cold War, this old argument now seems rather stale, and this book is an attempt, using a wide, international range of contributors, to explain to students the wider meaning and effects of the Vietnam conflict. The essays will provide ideal teaching material and give a greater depth to our understanding of the war.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Manchester, UK

    Peter Lowe

About the editor

PETER LOWE was one time Reader of History at Manchester University, UK.

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