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Split into three volumes, The Cambridge History of the Vietnam War brings together seventy-five leading experts on the war from across the world, covering the late colonial era to present-day legacies, using a range of diverse methodologies and approaches. When did the fighting begin, why and how did it escalate, and in what manner did the violence end and the legacies endure? These are some of the fundamental questions that have consumed scholars, whose works trigger more questions than offer definitive answers. The volumes seek neither to reconcile past arguments, enflame ongoing disputes, or set off new debates - instead, they intend to celebrate the diversity and differences in scholarship and attest to the indisputable importance of this conflict in global history. From decision-making in the corridors of power, to everyday life at war on the battlefront and homefront, to cultural legacies of the war on a global level, the three volumes present the most exhaustive and authoritative treatment of the seminal conflict.
Contents
Volume I: Introduction. Points of departure: the global and local origins of the Vietnam War; Part I. Empires and Nations: 1. Memory, tradition, and the history of 'Vietnam'; 2. The origins of the Vietnamese revolution; 3. Hồ Chí Minh and the rise of the Vietnamese Communist Party; 4. Indochina during World War II; 5. The august revolution of 1945; Part II. The First Indochina War: 6. The birth of the democratic republic of Vietnam; 7. Empire and decolonization in France and Indochina; 8. China, the Soviet Union, and the first Indochina War; 9. The first Indochina War in the Central Highlands; 10. The first Indochina War in Northern Vietnam and the red river delta; 11. The battle of Điện Biện Phủ; Part III. The Two Vietnams: 12. The Geneva Conference of 1954; 13. Eisenhower and Vietnam; 14. Ngô Đình Diệm and the birth of the Republic of Vietnam; 15. Nation building in South Vietnam after Geneva; 16. Building socialism in North Vietnam after Geneva; 17. North Vietnam's road to war; 18. Laos between two wars; 19. The origins of the insurgency in South Vietnam; 20. Kennedy and Vietnam; 21. The crises of 1963; Volume II: Introduction; Part I. Battlefields: 1. Reconsidering American strategy in Vietnam; 2. The air wars in Vietnam; 3. US combat soldiers in Vietnam; 4. American women and the Vietnam War; 5. The conundrum of Pacification; 6. The US military presence in South Vietnam; 7. The ARVN experience; 8. The National Liberation Front; 9. The people's army of Vietnam; 10. Vietnamese women and the war; 11. Vietnam's ethnic minorities at war; 12. The war in numbers; 13. The Tet Offensive; Part II. Homefronts: 14. Dominoes abroad and at home; 15. LBJ, the great society, and Vietnam; 16. Politics in South Vietnam, 1963-68; 17. Politics in the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, 1963-68; 18. The antiwar movement in the United States; 19. Vietnam and American race relations; 20. Prowar sentiment in the United States; 21. The US news media and Vietnam; 22. The South Vietnamese Homefront; 23. The North Vietnamese Homefront; Part III. Global Vietnam: 24. International radicalism and antiwar protest; 25. The Vietnam war and the Sino-Soviet Split; 26. Western Europe and the Vietnam war; 27. International peace initiatives; 28. Japan and the Vietnam war; 29. The economics of the Vietnam War; 30. The Global 1968; Volume III: Introduction; Part I. The Late Vietnam War: 1. Nixon's war; 2. US military strategy in the Nixon Era; 3. The US congress and the war; 4. US antiwar sentiment and international relationships in the late Vietnam war; 5. Saigon war politics, 1968-1975; 6. Hanoi's politburo at war, 1969-1975; 7. The Vietnam war and the regional context; 8. Moscow, Beijing, and Détente; 9. The easter offensive and the second air war; 10. The Second Civil War, 1973-75; 11. Cambodia at war; 12. Laos at war; Part II. The Postwar Era: 13. Vietnam after 'Liberation'; 14. The third world and the Communist Triumph in Vietnam; 15. The Third Indochina War; 16. Vietnam in the reform era; 17. Postwar US-Vietnam relations; 18. Refugees and US-Vietnam relations; 19. The US POW Experience, American Veterans, and the war; Part III. Legacies: 20. The Vietnam War and International Law; 21. The environmental impact of war; 22. The Vietnamese diaspora; 23. How Vietnam remembers the war; 24. The Vietnam war in American culture; 25. The Spectre of Vietnam; 26. Vietnam's search for its place in the world.
