The Vietnam War in the Pacific World - 9781469671147

Fire in the American lake: towards a regional turn in Vietnam War studies / Brian Cuddy and Fredrik Logevall -- British neocolonialism in Malaya and Singapore, and U.S. empire in the Pacific / Wen-Qing Ngoei -- Made in Britain: the fantasy driving Australia's involvement in the Vietnam War / Greg Lockhart -- The war of Southeast Asia: falling dominoes, the 1967 Clifford-Taylor mission, and the fight for the stability of the Pacific world / A. Gabrielle Westcott -- A far greater prize than Vietnam: the United States, Indonesia, and the Vietnam War / Mark Atwood Lawrence -- The view from the hill: Hawai'i's congressional delegation and the struggle for peace in Vietnam and equity at home, 1964-1975 / Marc Jason Gilbert -- GI resistance and transpacific activism in Iwakuni during the Vietnam War: a piece of forgotten history / Noriko Shiratori -- The U.S. military's R&R program in Taipei, 1965-1972 / Zach Fredman -- Taiwanese economic assistance to South Vietnam, 1955-1975 / Jason Lim -- The "Vietnamese" skirt and other wartime myths in Lee Yun-gi's "Trigonometric functions" / Alice S. Kim -- The American-led military coalition in Vietnam: interests, incentives, and interpretations / David L. Anderson -- LBJ's Hessians 'Korean troops' dispatch to Vietnam / Christopher Lovins -- Strengthening the regime: Singapore, the United States, and the war in Indochina / S.R. Joey Long -- Buying time? The Vietnam War and Southeast Asia / Mattias Fibiger -- From resident to refugee: the exodus from Southern Vietnam in the late 1970s / Lisa Tran -- Vietnamese refugee status, habeas corpus, and Hong Kong, 1988-1997 / Jana K. Lipman -- Moving beyond the past: Vietnamese serving in the Australian Defence Force / Nathalie Huynh Chau Nguyen -- Veterans' reflections on legacies of war in Vi?t Nam at peace / Mia Martin Hobbs -- Colonial legacies of dioxin contamination in Vietnam and Australia / Boi Huyen Ngo.

• | Author: Brian Cuddy, Fredrik Logevall
• | Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
• | Publication Date: Nov 15, 2022
• | Number of Pages: 382 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/History
• | ISBN-10: 146967114X
• | ISBN-13: 9781469671147