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The Vietnam War in the Pacific World

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, (c)2022.Description: 1 online resource (432 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781469671161
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • DS557 .V548 2022
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Contents:
Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Tables and Graphs -- 1. Fire in the American Lake: Toward a Regional Turn in Vietnam War Studies -- 2. British Neocolonialism in Malaya and Singapore, and U.S. Empire in the Pacific -- 3. Made in Britain: The Fantasy Driving Australia's Involvement in the Vietnam War -- 4. The War of Southeast Asia: Falling Dominoes, the 1967 Clifford-Taylor Mission, and the Fight for the Stability of the Pacific World -- 5. A Far Greater Prize than Vietnam: The United States, Indonesia, and the Vietnam War
7. GI Resistance and Transpacific Activism in Iwakuni during the Vietnam War: A Piece of Forgotten History -- 8. The U.S. Military's R&R Program in Taipei, 1965-1972 -- 9. Taiwanese Economic Assistance to South Vietnam, 1955-1975 -- 10. The "Vietnamese" Skirt and Other Wartime Myths in Lee Yun-gi's "Trigonometric Functions," -- 11. The American-Led Military Coalition in Vietnam: Interests, Incentives, and Interpretations
13. Strengthening the Regime: Singapore, the United States, and the War in Indochina -- 14. Buying Time?: The Vietnam War and Southeast Asia -- 15. From Resident to Refugee: The Exodus from Southern Vietnam in the Late 1970s -- 16. Vietnamese Refugee Status, Habeas Corpus, and Hong Kong, 1988-1997 -- 17. Moving beyond the Past: Vietnamese Serving in the Australian Defence Force -- 18. Veterans' Reflections on Legacies of War in Việt Nam at Peace -- 19. Colonial Legacies of Dioxin Contamination in Vietnam and Australia -- Acknowledgments
Subject: "Fifty years since the signing of the Paris Peace Accords signaled the final withdrawal of U.S. troops from Vietnam, the war's mark on the Pacific world remains. The essays gathered here offer an essential, postcolonial interpretation of a struggle rooted not only in Indochinese history but also in the wider Asia Pacific region. Extending the Vietnam War's historiography away from a singular focus on American policies and experiences and toward fundamental regional dynamics, the book reveals a truly global struggle that made the Pacific world what it is today"--
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Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Tables and Graphs -- 1. Fire in the American Lake: Toward a Regional Turn in Vietnam War Studies -- 2. British Neocolonialism in Malaya and Singapore, and U.S. Empire in the Pacific -- 3. Made in Britain: The Fantasy Driving Australia's Involvement in the Vietnam War -- 4. The War of Southeast Asia: Falling Dominoes, the 1967 Clifford-Taylor Mission, and the Fight for the Stability of the Pacific World -- 5. A Far Greater Prize than Vietnam: The United States, Indonesia, and the Vietnam War

6. The View from the Hill: Hawai.Ai's Congressional Delegation and the Struggle for Peace in Vietnam and Equity at Home, 1964-1975 -- 7. GI Resistance and Transpacific Activism in Iwakuni during the Vietnam War: A Piece of Forgotten History -- 8. The U.S. Military's R&R Program in Taipei, 1965-1972 -- 9. Taiwanese Economic Assistance to South Vietnam, 1955-1975 -- 10. The "Vietnamese" Skirt and Other Wartime Myths in Lee Yun-gi's "Trigonometric Functions," -- 11. The American-Led Military Coalition in Vietnam: Interests, Incentives, and Interpretations

12. LBJ's Hessians?: Korean Troops' Dispatch to Vietnam -- 13. Strengthening the Regime: Singapore, the United States, and the War in Indochina -- 14. Buying Time?: The Vietnam War and Southeast Asia -- 15. From Resident to Refugee: The Exodus from Southern Vietnam in the Late 1970s -- 16. Vietnamese Refugee Status, Habeas Corpus, and Hong Kong, 1988-1997 -- 17. Moving beyond the Past: Vietnamese Serving in the Australian Defence Force -- 18. Veterans' Reflections on Legacies of War in Việt Nam at Peace -- 19. Colonial Legacies of Dioxin Contamination in Vietnam and Australia -- Acknowledgments

Contributors --

"Fifty years since the signing of the Paris Peace Accords signaled the final withdrawal of U.S. troops from Vietnam, the war's mark on the Pacific world remains. The essays gathered here offer an essential, postcolonial interpretation of a struggle rooted not only in Indochinese history but also in the wider Asia Pacific region. Extending the Vietnam War's historiography away from a singular focus on American policies and experiences and toward fundamental regional dynamics, the book reveals a truly global struggle that made the Pacific world what it is today"--

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