Triumph revisited : historians battle for the Vietnam War / edited by Andrew Wiest and Michael J. Doidge.
| Other author | Wiest, Andrew A. |
| Other author | Doidge, Michael. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | New York : Routledge, 2010. |
| Description | xiv, 239 pages ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Foreword / Dennis Showalter -- Introduction: Historians and the Vietnam War / Andrew Wiest -- Section I. The Vietnam War in an Asian perspective -- The Vietnamese Civil War of 1955-75 in historical perspective / Keith W. Taylor -- Ngo Dinh Diem and South Vietnam reconsidered / Philip E. Catton -- What we still do not know : Moyar's treatment of global communism / William Stueck -- A one-sided picture of the Chinese-Vietnamese ties during the Vietnam War / Qiang Zhai -- Section I response / Mark Moyar -- Section II. Debating Triumph forsaken as history -- Triumph impossible / James Dingeman -- Fighting stories / Charles Hill -- Imperial revanchism : attempting to recover a post-war "noble cause" / Scott Laderman -- Triumph forsaken as a path to setting the record straight / Robert F.Turner -- Governing the Vietnamese "masses" : the United States, Ngo Dinh Diem, and the notion of Triumph forsaken / Jessica Chapman -- Triumph forsaken as military history / Andrew J. Birtle -- Section II response / Mark Moyar -- Section III. Orthodoxy and revisionism -- Orthodox and revisionism : the domino theory as a case study / David L. Anderson -- Caricature for caricature? : the Vietnamese context in Triumph forsaken / Mark Atwood Lawrence -- Familiar territory : Mark Moyar's call to revisionism and the counterfactual / Michael Lind -- Throwing down the gauntlet : Triumph forsaken and the revisionist challenge / James McAllister -- Ngo Dinh Diem and Vietnam War revisionism in Mark Moyar's Triumph forsaken / Edward Miller -- Section III response / Mark Moyar -- Conclusion / Michael Doidge. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2009046037 |
| ISBN | 9780415800204 (hbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780415800211 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780203852118 (ebook) |
| ISBN | 041580020X (hbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0415800218 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0203852117 (ebook) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | DS557.74 .T757 2010 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |