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The Vietnam War Files: Uncovering the Secret History of Nixon-Era Strategy (Modern War Studies)

March 22, 2015

How Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger pursued their public vow to end the Vietnam War and win the peace has long been entangled in bitter controversy and obscured by political spin. Recent declassifications of archival documents, on both sides of the former Iron and Bamboo Curtains, have at last made it possible to uncover the […]
Planning A Tragedy: The Americanization of the War in Vietnam

March 22, 2015

“Takes an historically important decision, places it in its immediate stream of policy development, perceptions and events and adds what was missing from the Pentagon Papers.”—Richard E. Neustadt, Harvard University “A thoroughly researched and highly perceptive study of the decisions that turned the tribal struggle in Vietnam into an American war. Berman’s book fully documents […]
The Army and Vietnam

March 22, 2015

Many senior army officials still claim that if they had been given enough soldiers and weapons, the United States could have won the war in Vietnam. In this probing analysis of U.S. military policy in Vietnam, career army officer and strategist Andrew F. Krepinevich, Jr., argues that precisely because of this mindset the war was […]
The Industry of Marrying Europeans (Southeast Asia Program)

March 22, 2015

This work by Vu Trong Phung, written in the 1930s, reports and expands on the author’s meetings with North Vietnamese women who had made an “industry” of marrying European men. The Industry of Marrying Europeans is notable for its sharp observations, pointed humor, and unconventional mix of nonfictional and fictional narration, as well as its […]
Southeast Asia in the New International Era

March 22, 2015

Southeast Asia in the New International Era highlights the dramatic political events sweeping a dynamic region populated by more than 500 million people. Where economic boom and crisis dominated events in the late twentieth century, economic recovery and policy dilemmas define much of the region today. Political cleavage continues to bedevil Thailand’s intermittent democratization. Vietnam’s […]
Ruff Puff : A "MAT" Team Leader’s Story

March 22, 2015

Some American troops called them “Ruff-Puffs” and laughed at them. We called them our brothers and lived and fought alongside them every day in South Vietnam. By the end of my year as a Mobile Advisory Team (MAT) leader I admired all of them.This is the story of one MAT team (5 American Army advisors) […]
From Modern Production to Imagined Primitive: The Social World of Coffee from Papua New Guinea

March 22, 2015

In this vivid ethnography, Paige West tracks coffee as it moves from producers in Papua New Guinea to consumers around the world. She illuminates the social lives of the people who produce coffee, and those who process, distribute, market, and consume it. The Gimi peoples, who grow coffee in Papua New Guinea’s highlands, are eager […]
Global Studies: India and South Asia

March 22, 2015

Global Studies is a unique series designed to provide comprehensive background information and selected world press articles on the regions and countries of the world. Each Global Studies volume includes an annotated listing of World Wide Web sites and is now supported by an online Instructor’s Resource Guide. Visit our website for more information: www.mhhe.com/globalstudies.com. […]
Telling Lives, Telling History: Autobiography and Historical Imagination in Modern Indonesia

March 22, 2015

These two memoirs, superbly rendered into English for the first time, provide unique windows into the Sumatran past, in particular, and the early twentieth-century history of Southeast Asia, in general. Originally published soon after the Indonesian Revolution (1945-1949) liberated the island chain from Dutch control, these unusually insightful narratives recall the authors’ boyhoods in rural […]
Race and the Education of Desire: Foucault’s History of Sexuality and the Colonial Order of Things

March 22, 2015

Michel Foucault’s History of Sexuality has been one of the most influential books of the last two decades. It has had an enormous impact on cultural studies and work across many disciplines on gender, sexuality, and the body. Bringing a new set of questions to this key work, Ann Laura Stoler examines volume one of […]

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