A Companion to the Vietnam War [Hardcover]

A Companion to the Vietnam War contains twenty-four definitive essays on America's longest and most divisive foreign conflict. It represents the best current scholarship on this controversial and influential episode in modern American history.

• Highlights issues of nationalism, culture, gender, and race.
• Covers the breadth of Vietnam War history, including American war policies, the Vietnamese perspective, the antiwar movement, and the American home front.
• Surveys and evaluates the best scholarship on every important era and topic.
• Includes a select bibliography to guide further research.

About the Contributors viii

Introduction xi

1 Hanoi’s Long Century 1
Stein Tonnesson

PART 1 THE VIETNAMESE IN CONTEXT 17

2 In Search of Ho Chi Minh 19
William Duiker

3 Belated Asian Allies: The Technical and Military Contributions of Japanese Deserters (1945-50) 37
Christopher E. Goscha

4 The Realities and Consequences of War in a Northern Vietnamese Commune 65
Shaun Malarney

5 The My Tho Grapevine and the Sino-Soviet Split 79
David Hunt

6 “Vietnam” as a Women’s War 93
Karen G. Turner

PART 11 THE AMERICANS  IN SOUTHEAST ASIAN CONTEXT 113

7 Before the War: Legacies from the Early Twentieth Century in United States-Vietnam Relations 115
Anne Foster

8 Franklin Roosevelt, Trusteeship, and US Exceptionalism: Reconsidering the American VisionlƒL