A Companion to the Vietnam War
Blackwell Companions to American History
1. Edition January 2006
528 Pages, Softcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
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.
Part I: The Vietnamese in Context.
Part III: Americans at Home and Abroad.
Selected Bibliography: Compiled by Amy E. Blackwell.
who will discover stimulating perspectives that deliver on Young
and Buzzanco's claims, comprising a welcome addition to the
literature." History: Reviews of New Books
"The quality of the essays... make it an easy recommendation to
those looking at the war."
Journal of American Studies
"This terrific collection of twenty-four original articles
is as valuable for the teacher as for the student of the Vietnam
War. The contributors, who universally rank among the foremost
experts on both the War and Southeast Asian history, utilize
diverse frameworks and diverse sources to produce diverse
perspectives. Young and Buzzanco warrant praise and thanks for
assembling a volume sure to become mandatory reading."
Richard Immerman, Temple University
"These stimulating essays on both the Southeast Asian and
American sides of the war contribute valuable new insights into old
debates, such as presidential decisions, and leading-edge
investigations into new issues, such as ethnicity, gender, and
memory." David L. Anderson, University of
Indianapolis
University. She is the author of Rhetoric of Empire: American
China Policy (1969) and The Vietnam Wars (1991), winner
of the Berkshire Women's History Prize. She is the co-author
of Transforming Russia and China: Revolutionary Struggle in the
20th Century (with William Rosenberg, 1980), Promissory
Notes: Women and the Transition to Socialism (with Rayna Rapp
and Sonia Kruks, 1983), and Vietnam and America (with Marvin
Gettleman, Jane Franklin, and Bruce Franklin, 1995), and is the
co-editor of Human Rights and Revolutions (with Lynn Hunt
and Jeffrey Wasserstrom, 2000).
Robert Buzzanco is Associate Professor of History at the
University of Houston. He is the author of Masters of War:
Military Dissent and Politics in the Vietnam Era (1996), winner
of the Stuart L. Bernath Prize, and Vietnam and the
Transformation of American Life (Blackwell, 1999).