Making Sense of the Vietnam Wars (Paperback)

Mark Philip Bradley

ISBN 10: 0195315146 / ISBN 13: 9780195315141

Published by Oxford University Press Inc, New York, 2008

About this Item

Paperback. 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 the length of the wars and has continued to be asked in the decades since they ended. This volume brings together the work of eleven scholars to examine the conceptual and methodological shifts that have marked the contested terrain of Vietnam War scholarship. Editors Marilyn Young and Mark Bradley's superb group ofrenowned contributors spans the generations--including those who were active during wartime, along with scholars conducting research in Vietnamese sources and uncovering new sources in the United States,former Soviet Union, China, and Eastern and Western Europe. Ranging in format 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, these essays comprise the most up-to-date collection of scholarship on the controversial historiography of the Vietnam Wars. Looks at how interpreations of key events change over timeNew essays on Vietnam from every perspective written by a renowned multigenerational group of contributors Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Making Sense of the Vietnam Wars (Paperback)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc, New York
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0195315146
• ISBN 13: 9780195315141
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

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 the length of the wars and has continued to be asked in the decades since they ended. This volume brings together the work of eleven scholars to examine the conceptual and methodological shifts that have marked the contested terrain of Vietnam War scholarship. Editors Marilyn Young and Mark Bradley's superb group of renowned contributors spans the generations--including those who were active during wartime, along with scholars conducting research in Vietnamese sources and uncovering new sources in the United States, former Soviet Union, China, and Eastern and Western Europe. Ranging in format 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, these essays comprise the most up-to-date collection of scholarship on the controversial historiography of the Vietnam Wars.

About the Author

Mark Philip Bradley is Associate Professor of History, University of Chicago.

Marilyn B. Young is Professor of History, New York University.