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  • - The American War on Vietnam, 1975-2000
    av Edwin A. Martini
    407

    Drawing on a range of sources, from White House documents and congressional hearings to comic books and feature films, this work shows how the United States continued to wage war on Vietnam ""by other means"" for another twenty-five years.

  • - The Political Culture of United States Imperialism, 1945-66
     
    411

    Dissatisfied with traditional diplomatic and military interpretations, historians have been investigating the role that political culture played in shaping global conflicts. This text illuminates the political and cultural assumptions underlying US policies from World War II to the mid-1960s.

  • av H.Bruce Franklin
    407

    This work is a cultural history of the Vietnam War and its continuing impact upon contemporary American society. The author presents an investigation of how myths about the war evolved and why people depend on them to answer the confusing questions that have become the legacy of the war.

  • - Lives of Thomas A.Dooley, 1927-61
    av James T. Fisher
    411

    This work chronicles the life of Tom Dooley, the doctor whose publicized exploits in Vietnam and Laos during the 1950s, helped lay the ideological groundwork for the US military intervention a decade later. A deeply religious Roman Catholic, Dooley was a playboy socialite, yet devoted to the poor.

  • - From Peasant Insurrection to Total War, 1959-1968
    av David Hunt
    451

    Offers an analysis of the Vietnam War as experienced by the Vietnamese peasantry. This book shows how peasants, who earlier had aspired to a kind of revolutionary modernism, found themselves struggling to survive and to cope with the American intruders who poured into My Tho.

  • - The Politics of Protest in Massachusetts, 1974-1990
    av Robert Surbrug
    461

    The May 1970 killings at Kent State often stand as an epitaph to a decade of protest, after which the principal story becomes the resurgence of the right. This title challenges this paradigm by examining three protest movements: the movement against nuclear energy; the nuclear weapons freeze movement; and, the Central American solidarity movement.

  • - The National Security World, the Cold War, and the Origins of Globalism
    av James Peck
    467

    Addresses a central question about the Cold War: why did the US go to such lengths to isolate China from all diplomatic, cultural, and economic ties to other nations? Aiming to provide the answer, this book suggests that it was because of the fear of China's emergence as a power capable of challenging the new Asian order the US sought to shape.

  • - The Home Front and the Aftermath in American Narratives of the Vietnam War
    av Maureen Ryan
    451

    Examines novels, short stories, memoirs, and films that document the Vietnam war's impact on the home front. This book focuses on the process of readjustment, on how the war continued to insinuate itself into their lives, their families, and their communities long after they returned home.

  • - Cold War America and the Disillusioning of a Generation
    av Tom Engelhardt
    467

    Explores how, in the aftermath of September 11, 2001, the younger George Bush headed for the Wild West (Osama bin Laden); how his administration brought ""victory culture"" roaring back as part of its War on Terror; and how, from its ""Mission Accomplished"" moment on, its various stories of triumph crashed and burned in that land.

  • av Jonathan Nashel
    407

    The man widely believed to have been the model for Alden Pyle in Graham Greene's The Quiet American, Edward G. Lansdale (1908-1987) was a Cold War celebrity. This biography reexamines Lansdale's role as an agent of American Cold War foreign policy and takes into account both his actual activities and the myths that grew to surround him.

  • - The American Left, the Cold War and Modern Feminism
    av Daniel Horowitz
    467

    This biography of Betty Friedan traces the development of her feminist outlook from her childhood in Illinois to her marriage. Horowitz offers a reading of ""The Feminine Mystique"" and argues that the roots of Friedan's feminism run deeper than she has led us to believe.

  • - Gender and the Making of Cold War Foreign Policy
    av Robert D. Dean
    461

    An analysis of how culture, class and gender shaped American foreign policy during the Cold War. The author examines the institutions that shaped the members of the US foreign policy establishment, including all-male prep schools and Ivy-League universities.

  • - Modernization, Development and the Global Cold War
    av Nils Gilma
    451

    Beginning in the 1950s, the theory of modernization emerged as the dominant paradigm of sconomic, social, and political development within the America foreign policy establishment. This collection of essays attempts to shed fresh light on the global forces that shaped the Cold War and its legacies.

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