Understanding Vietnam

Understanding Vietnam

Author: Neil L. Jamieson

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2023-11-10

Total Pages: 447

ISBN-13: 0520916581

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The American experience in Vietnam divided us as a nation and eroded our confidence in both the morality and the effectiveness of our foreign policy. Yet our understanding of this tragic episode remains superficial because, then and now, we have never grasped the passionate commitment with which the Vietnamese clung to and fought over their own competing visions of what Vietnam was and what it might become. To understand the war, we must understand the Vietnamese, their culture, and their ways of looking at the world. Neil L. Jamieson, after many years of living and working in Vietnam, has written the book that provides this understanding. Jamieson paints a portrait of twentieth-century Vietnam. Against the background of traditional Vietnamese culture, he takes us through the saga of modern Vietnamese history and Western involvement in the country, from the coming of the French in 1858 through the Vietnam War and its aftermath. Throughout his analysis, he allows the Vietnamese—both our friends and foes, and those who wished to be neither—to speak for themselves through poetry, fiction, essays, newspaper editorials and reports of interviews and personal experiences. By putting our old and partial perceptions into this new and broader context, Jamieson provides positive insights that may perhaps ease the lingering pain and doubt resulting from our involvement in Vietnam. As the United States and Vietnam appear poised to embark on a new phase in their relationship, Jamieson's book is particularly timely.


Understanding Vietnam

Understanding Vietnam

Author: Neil L. Jamieson

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 447

ISBN-13: 0520201574

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Winner of the Outstanding Academic Book, American Library Association, 1994


Hanoi's War

Hanoi's War

Author: Lien-Hang T. Nguyen

Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press

Published: 2012-07-15

Total Pages: 462

ISBN-13: 0807882690

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While most historians of the Vietnam War focus on the origins of U.S. involvement and the Americanization of the conflict, Lien-Hang T. Nguyen examines the international context in which North Vietnamese leaders pursued the war and American intervention ended. This riveting narrative takes the reader from the marshy swamps of the Mekong Delta to the bomb-saturated Red River Delta, from the corridors of power in Hanoi and Saigon to the Nixon White House, and from the peace negotiations in Paris to high-level meetings in Beijing and Moscow, all to reveal that peace never had a chance in Vietnam. Hanoi's War renders transparent the internal workings of America's most elusive enemy during the Cold War and shows that the war fought during the peace negotiations was bloodier and much more wide ranging than it had been previously. Using never-before-seen archival materials from the Vietnam Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as well as materials from other archives around the world, Nguyen explores the politics of war-making and peace-making not only from the North Vietnamese perspective but also from that of South Vietnam, the Soviet Union, China, and the United States, presenting a uniquely international portrait.


Voices from the Vietnam War

Voices from the Vietnam War

Author: Xiaobing Li

Publisher: University Press of Kentucky

Published: 2010-06-11

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 0813173868

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The Vietnam War's influence on politics, foreign policy, and subsequent military campaigns is the center of much debate and analysis. But the impact on veterans across the globe, as well as the war's effects on individual lives and communities, is a largely neglected issue. As a consequence of cultural and legal barriers, the oral histories of the Vietnam War currently available in English are predictably one-sided, providing limited insight into the inner workings of the Communist nations that participated in the war. Furthermore, many of these accounts focus on combat experiences rather than the backgrounds, belief systems, and social experiences of interviewees, resulting in an incomplete historiography of the war. Chinese native Xiaobing Li corrects this oversight in Voices from the Vietnam War: Stories from American, Asian, and Russian Veterans. Li spent seven years gathering hundreds of personal accounts from survivors of the war, accounts that span continents, nationalities, and political affiliations. The twenty-two intimate stories in the book feature the experiences of American, Chinese, Russian, Korean, and North and South Vietnamese veterans, representing the views of both anti-Communist and Communist participants, including Chinese officers of the PLA, a Russian missile-training instructor, and a KGB spy. These narratives humanize and contextualize the war's events while shedding light on aspects of the war previously unknown to Western scholars. Providing fresh perspectives on a long-discussed topic, Voices from the Vietnam War offers a thorough and unique understanding of America's longest war.


Why Viet Nam?

Why Viet Nam?

Author: Archimedes L. A. Patti

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1980-01-01

Total Pages: 648

ISBN-13: 9780520041561

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The American War in Contemporary Vietnam

The American War in Contemporary Vietnam

Author: Christina Schwenkel

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2009-07-13

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 0253003318

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Christina Schwenkel's absorbing study explores how the "American War" is remembered and commemorated in Vietnam today -- in official and unofficial histories and in everyday life. Schwenkel analyzes visual representations found in monuments and martyrs' cemeteries, museums, photography and art exhibits, battlefield tours, and related sites of "trauma tourism." In these transnational spaces, American and Vietnamese memories of the war intersect in ways profoundly shaped by global economic liberalization and the return of American citizens as tourists, pilgrims, and philanthropists.


Vietnam and Other American Fantasies

Vietnam and Other American Fantasies

Author: Howard Bruce Franklin

Publisher:

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13:

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Written by a cultural historian, this text offers a wide-ranging exploration of the causes, meaning and continuing significance of the American war in Vietnam, arguing that the war was not a mistake, or a quagmire but a defining event in global history.


War and Aftermath in Vietnam

War and Aftermath in Vietnam

Author: T. Louise Brown

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-12-27

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 1000504719

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This book, first published in 1991, attempts to combine a broad understanding of the background to the conflict in Vietnamese and world history with detailed material on US military tactics and the failure of pacification. There are chapters on the US presidential administrations of Johnson, Kennedy and Nixon; religion, culture and society in North and South Vietnam, and the nature of the ‘People's Revolutionary War’.


Vietnam

Vietnam

Author: Christopher Goscha

Publisher:

Published: 2016-09-13

Total Pages: 592

ISBN-13: 0465094368

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The definitive history of modern Vietnam and its diverse and divided past