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142775
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The shooting ended forty years ago but American scholars still fight over how to interpret the Vietnam War. Historians, especially, continue to debate the meaning, significance, and experience of the Second Indochina War. Skirmishes in 2011 over a college textbook pitted conventional US-centric narratives emphasising American actors against Vietnam-centric narratives stressing the other side.1 In 2014, critical portrayals of US military conduct in Vietnam stirred old battle lines arraying hawks versus doves, many of whom have one eye trained on ongoing interventions in the Middle East.2 Such polarised debates often reproduce simplistic, binary representations of what was, in fact, a complex Cold War conflict unfolding through a hot civil war. They do so to the neglect of the everyday experience of people who lived through it.
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126735
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2013.
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U.N. Secretary General U. Thant (1961-1971), a vocal and persistent critic of the American war effort in Vietnam, attempted, with little success, to initiate negotiations to end the war. His efforts included public calls for negotiating formats that would include all the parties to the conflict, such as a reconvening of the Geneva Conference, and behind-the-scenes diplomacy to produce direct negotiations between the United States and North Vietnam. This article argues that Thant's failure to serve as a mediator had less to do with his own skills as a diplomat than they had to do with the Johnson administration's determination to achieve a military solution to the war. In this regard, the results of Thant's efforts were little different from those of other would-be mediators who also tried and failed to initiate negotiations.
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122590
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2013.
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In the early years of U.S. involvement in Vietnam, the Departments of State and Defense battled over the decision to use chemical herbicides to defoliate the landscape and destroy enemy access crops. While the Pentagon won the initial battle, allowing herbicidal warfare to proceed, State's concerns about program ultimately proved prophetic as the chemical war waged by the United States in Southeast Asia further alienated the Vietnamese villagers the program was ostensibly designed to protect. This essay moves beyond previous studies of Operation Ranch Hand by exploring the politics of the herbicidal warfare, and crop destruction in particular, from Washington D.C. to MACV to Vietnamese villages. Drawing on previously unexplored archival sources, this essay explores contemporary reactions to the herbicide program and shows how the chemical war embodied the larger contradictions of the American war in Vietnam.
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ID:
065160
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London, Routledge, 2005.
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xix, 294p.Hbk
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0415353955
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| Accession# | Call# | Current Location | Status | Policy | Location |
| 050001 | 909.8/BLA 050001 | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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ID:
053226
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New York, Alfred A Knopf, 2004.
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xi, 254p.: ill., mapshbk
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1400041996
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| 048468 | 956.70443/KEE 048468 | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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ID:
034844
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London, Leo Cooper Ltd., 1989.
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xv, 218p.: ill, maps.Hbk
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0850527619
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| 031517 | 923.5/THO 031517 | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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115841
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107896
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037764
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Berkeley, University of California Press, 1972.
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xxiii, 299p.: tables, mapspbk
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0520023617
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| 011369 | 959.7043/RAC 011369 | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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140677
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London, Cassell, Wellington House, 1999.
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224p.: mapshbk
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0304352454
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| 042553 | 940.253/BLA 042553 | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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