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.
"Overall, this collection will inform and challenge readers,who will discover stimulating perspectives that deliver on Youngand Buzzanco's claims, comprising a welcome addition to theliterature." History: Reviews of New Books
"The quality of the essays... make it an easy recommendation tothose looking at the war."
Journal of American Studies
"This terrific collection of twenty-four original articlesis as valuable for the teacher as for the student of the VietnamWar. The contributors, who universally rank among the foremostexperts on both the War and Southeast Asian history, utilizediverse frameworks and diverse sources to produce diverseperspectives. Young and Buzzanco warrant praise and thanks forassembling a volume sure to become mandatory reading."Richard Immerman, Temple University
"These stimulating essays on both the Southeast Asian andAmerican sides of the war contribute valuable new insights into olddebates, such as presidential decisions, and leading-edgeinvestigations into new issues, such as ethnicity, gender, andmemory." David L. Anderson, University ofIndianapolis
"The quality of the essays... make it an easy recommendation tothose looking at the war."
Journal of American Studies
"This terrific collection of twenty-four original articlesis as valuable for the teacher as for the student of the VietnamWar. The contributors, who universally rank among the foremostexperts on both the War and Southeast Asian history, utilizediverse frameworks and diverse sources to produce diverseperspectives. Young and Buzzanco warrant praise and thanks forassembling a volume sure to become mandatory reading."Richard Immerman, Temple University
"These stimulating essays on both the Southeast Asian andAmerican sides of the war contribute valuable new insights into olddebates, such as presidential decisions, and leading-edgeinvestigations into new issues, such as ethnicity, gender, andmemory." David L. Anderson, University ofIndianapolis