Kenton Clymer

Biographic Data

ID1529368
NAMEKenton Clymer
GIVEN NAMESKenton
FAMILY NAMEClymer
SIGNATURECLYMER K
AFFILIATIONSThe University of Texas at El Paso
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS47
TOTAL CITATIONS28
WORKS AS AUTHOR47
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1976
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX3

  • Oliver Charbonneau. Civilizational Imperatives

    Open AccessKenton ClymerARTICLEThe American Historical Review2023

    Journal Article Oliver Charbonneau. Civilizational Imperatives: Americans, Moros, and the Colonial World. Get access Oliver Charbonneau. Civilizational Imperatives: Americans, Moros, and the Colonial World. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2020. Pp. xvi, 282. Cloth $45.00. Kenton Clymer Kenton Clymer Northern Illinois University, US Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American H…

  • The Centrality of Military Ties in the Philippine-U.S. Relationship

    Open AccessKenton ClymerARTICLEDiplomatic History2022

    Bound by War surveys the Philippine-U.S. relationship from U.S. acquisition in 1899 to the return of the Balangiga Bells (war booty from the Philippine-American War that followed annexation) in December 2018. Capozzola argues that the military connections were the relationship’s most important aspect: “War shaped every aspect of the Pacific Century, from how Americans and Filipinos thought about each other to how they lived together” (7). This th…

  • Hang Thi Thu Le-Tormala Postwar Journeys

    Kenton ClymerARTICLEJournal of American-East Asian…2022

  • Southeast Asia

    Open AccessKenton ClymerARTICLEDiplomatic History2021

    When I was an undergraduate history major in college, I learned much from the inspired teaching of the great Grinnell College historian Joseph F. Wall. One of the books assigned was E. H. Carr’s, What is History? Later in graduate school, one of my best professors told me it was a dangerous book. But I discovered a great deal from Wall and from the book, including the astounding claim that the history was not the same as “the past,” and, even mor…

  • Taste of Control

    Open AccessKenton ClymerARTICLEJournal of American History2021Cited by: 2

    For decades, American historical scholarship about Philippine-American relations was limited. But when the Vietnam War focused attention on U.S. relations with Southeast Asia, new, archivally based research began. Among the first to appear was Theodore W. Friend's Bancroft-prize-winning book, Between Two Empires: The Ordeal of the Philippines, 1929–1946 (1965). Next Bonifacio S. Salamanca, Peter W. Stanley, and Glenn A. May explored the first twe…

  • Craig Etcheson, Extraordinary Justice

    Kenton ClymerARTICLEJournal of American-East Asian…2020

  • Richard B. Meixsel. Frustrated Ambition

    Open AccessKenton ClymerARTICLEThe American Historical Review2019

  • A Great Place to Have a War

    Joshua Kurlantzick, Kenton ClymerARTICLEContemporary Southeast Asia2017

    A Great Place to Have a War: America in Laos and the Birth of the Military CIA. By Joshua Kurlantzick. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2017. Hardcover: 323pp. This aptly, but ironically, titled book tells the story of US involvement in Laos from the early 1950s through the secret war of the 1960s and beyond. Like many journalistic accounts, the book relies substantially on interviews with the American participants and the Hmong military leader Vang…

  • Eric Tang. Unsettled

    Kenton ClymerARTICLEThe American Historical Review2016

    Unsettled: Cambodian Refugees in the New York City Hyperghetto tells the story of Cambodian refugees who were settled in the Bronx after the murderous Khmer Rouge Regime collapsed following the Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia in December 1978. This participant history (author Eric Tang was a community organizer in New York) focuses primarily on the family of Ra Pronh. She survived the Khmer Rouge years (1975–1978), was taken captive by the retrea…

  • The United States and the Guomindang (Kmt) Forces in Burma, 1949–1954

    Kenton ClymerARTICLEThe Chinese Historical Review2014

    As Mao Zedong’s armies swept to victory in 1949, thousands of Guomindang (KMT) troops fled into northern Burma. The newly independent country they entered was near collapse. Burma had not recovered from the devastation of World War II and also faced two communist rebellions and several insurgencies in ethnic minority areas. The KMT troops complicated Burma?s relations with the new People?s Republic of China (PRC), fed traditional suspicions of th…

  • The United States and Cambodia, 1969-2000

    Kenton Clymer, Kenton J ClymerBOOKUnited States and Cambodia,…2013

    Beginning with the restoration of diplomatic relations between the US and Cambodia in 1969, this book is the first to systematically explore the controversial issues and events surrounding the relationship between the two countries in the latter half of the 20th century. It traces how the secret bombing of Cambodia, the coup which overthrew Prince Sihanouk and the American invasion of Cambodia in 1970 led to a brutal civil war. Based on extensive…

  • Culture and Diplomacy in Cold War Laos

    Kenton ClymerARTICLEDiplomatic History2013

    Journal Article Culture and Diplomacy in Cold War Laos Get access Seth Jacobs, The Universe Unraveling: American Foreign Policy in Cold War Laos. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2012. 312 pp, $35.00. Kenton Clymer Kenton Clymer [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, Volume 37, Issue 5, November 2013, Pages 1168–1170, https://doi.org/10.1093/dh/dht062 Published: 26 April 2…

  • The Ground Observer Corps

    Kenton ClymerARTICLEJournal of Cold War Studies2013References: 1

    This essay examines the development and demise of one of the least studied elements of U.S. homeland defense efforts in the 1950s: the Ground Observer Corps (GOC). The article recounts the history of the GOC from its founding in the mid-1950s until its deactivation in 1959 and concludes that it never came close to achieving its goals for recruitment and effectiveness. Yet, despite the major shortcomings of the GOC, the U.S. Air Force continued to…

  • Before the Quagmire

    Kenton ClymerARTICLEJournal of American History2013

    Journal Article Before the Quagmire: American Intervention in Laos, 1954–1961. Get access Before the Quagmire: American Intervention in Laos, 1954–1961. By William J. Rust. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2012. x, 323 pp. $40.00.) Kenton Clymer Kenton Clymer Northern Illinois UniversityDeKalb, Illinois [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 99, Issue 4…

  • The Trial for High Treason of the “Burma Surgeon,” Gordon S. Seagrave

    Kenton ClymerARTICLEPacific Historical Review2012

    This article explores the trial in Burma for high treason in 1950–1951 of a saintly American figure, Gordon Seagrave, who operated a remote mission hospital. Neither Seagrave nor the trial has received adequate scholarly attention. The trial provides a window into the revolutionary conditions then existing in newly independent Burma and into Burmese views of American missionaries who they thought supported the ethnic minorities who were in rebell…

  • The United States and Cambodia, 1870-1969

    Kenton Clymer, Kenton J ClymerBOOKUnited States and Cambodia,…2004

    Spanning from the first US contacts with Cambodia in the 19th century up until the late 1960s and the outbreak of war with Vietnam, this book is the first to systematically explore American relations with Cambodia. A discussion of adventurers, tourists and missionaries initially sets the scene for the analysis of official relations which began in 1950.The book traces how relations with Cambodia's king, Norodom Sihanouk, were often troubled as Sih…

  • Jimmy Carter, Human Rights, and Cambodia

    Kenton ClymerARTICLEDiplomatic History2003

    A foreign policy that placed the defense of human rights at its center characterized the administration of Jimmy Carter—at least rhetorically. “As President,” Carter wrote in his memoirs, “I hoped and believed that the expansion of human rights might be the wave of the future throughout the world, and I wanted the United States to be on the crest of this movement.”1 Most popular and scholarly commentators have been critical of Carter as a foreign…

  • White Love and Other Events in Filipino History

    Kenton Clymer, Vicente L RafaelARTICLEJournal of American History2001Cited by: 7

    White Love and Other Events in Filipino History, a collection of essays most of which are revisions of previously published materials, is “an episodic rather than epic account” of Philippine cultural history. Because twentieth century Philippine history has been intimately connected with the United States, the book is included in the publisher's American Encounters/Global Interactions series. Organized chronologically, the first three essays exam…

  • The Perils of Neutrality

    Kenton Clymer, Kenton J ClymerARTICLEDiplomatic History1999

    Early on the morning of 26 April 1965, a flash telegram arrived at the State Department from the American embassy in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Several hundred demonstrators were converging on the embassy, the crowd was growing steadily, and “rocks have begun to fly.” All local employees were sent home, embassy automobiles removed from the vicinity, and American dependents sent to the Hotel Royal. In another hour most of the windows had been broken an…

  • Cambodia

    Kenton Clymer, Kenton J ClymerARTICLEJournal of American-East Asian…1997

  • Quest for Freedom

    Rais Ahmad Khan, Kenton Clymer et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1996

    Journal Article Quest for Freedom: The United States and India's Independence. By Kenton J. Clymer. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1995. xxiv, 393 pp. Cloth, $49.50, ISBN 0-231-10044-2. Paper, $18.50, ISBN0-231-10045-0.) Get access Rais A. Khan Rais A. Khan Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 4, March 1996, Pages …

  • Savage Acts

    Kenton Clymer, Kenton J Clymer et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1996

    Journal Article Savage Acts. Prod. by Pcnnee Bender. American Social History Productions, Inc., and the Center for Media and Learning, City University of New York, 1995. 30 mins. (American Social History Project, 99 Hudson St., Third Floor, New York, NY 10013) Get access Kenton J. Clymer Kenton J. Clymer University of Texas, El Paso, Texas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume…

  • A Very Short War

    Kenton Clymer, John F Guilmartin et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1996

    Journal Article A Very Short War: The Mayaguez and the Battle of Koh Tang. By John F. Guilmartin Jr. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1995. xxvi, 238 pp. $39.50, ISBN 0-89096-665-6.) Get access Kenton Clymer Kenton Clymer University of Texas, El Paso, Texas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 83, Issue 3, December 1996, Pages 1100–1101, https://doi.org/10.2307/2…

  • Cambodia

    Kenton ClymerARTICLEBulletin of Concerned Asian…1996References: 3

    Written by the research director of the Centre national de la Recherche scientifique in Paris, Cambodia: A Shattered Society is an updated and revised version of a book first published in France in 1989

  • The Cold War on the Periphery

    Kenton Clymer, Kenton J Clymer et al.ARTICLEThe American Historical Review1995