Jessica Elkind
Biographic Data
| ID | 2568942 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jessica Elkind |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jessica |
| FAMILY NAME | Elkind |
| SIGNATURE | ELKIND J |
| AFFILIATIONS | San Francisco State University , San Francisco, California |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
After Saigon's Fall
In the crowded field of scholarship on American involvement in Vietnam, it is rare for a study to come along that truly breaks new ground. Yet this is exactly what Amanda C. Demmer's excellent, pathbreaking book does. After Saigon's Fall is an original, nuanced, and well-written examination of relations between the United States and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam in the post-1975 period. Demmer offers a comprehensive and compelling account of …
Scratching the Surface
The Vietnam War, a new documentary by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, is one of the filmmakers’ most ambitious projects. The ten-episode series aired on PBS last fall and seeks to be a definitive and comprehensive narrative history of the war. Burns and Novick focus on the period from 1965 to 1973, when American ground troops fought alongside the South Vietnamese. In an effort to explain how the war has profoundly affected American society and culture…
Dayna L. Barnes. Architects of Occupation
Most Americans view the Allied occupation of Japan after the Second World War as an example of a “good” occupation. Within a few years, a relatively small group of Americans and other foreigners directed Japan’s dramatic transformation from a militaristic and aggressive imperial power into a peaceful trading partner and a beacon of democracy in the region. Dayna Barnes’s Architects of Occupation offers a fascinating glimpse into the policymaking …
Aid Under Fire
Aid Under Fire explores American nation building and modernization efforts in South Vietnam during the decade leading up to the full-scale ground war.Beginning in the mid-1950s, American nation builders traveled to southern Vietnam, eager to help establish a permanent non-Communist state that would advance US interests in Asia.Ignoring the political concerns of the majority of the Vietnamese people, they supported the South Vietnamese government …
Hanoi's Road to the Vietnam War, 1954-1965
Journal Article Hanoi's Road to the Vietnam War, 1954–1965 Get access Pierre Asselin. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013. xxii, 319 pp. $55.00.) Journal of American History, Volume 102, Issue 1, June 2015, Pages 298–299, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jav211 Published: 01 June 2015
"The Virgin Mary is Going South"
After Saigon's Fall
In the crowded field of scholarship on American involvement in Vietnam, it is rare for a study to come along that truly breaks new ground. Yet this is exactly what Amanda C. Demmer's excellent, pathbreaking book does. After Saigon's Fall is an original, nuanced, and well-written examination of relations between the United States and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam in the post-1975 period. Demmer offers a comprehensive and compelling account of …
"The Virgin Mary is Going South"
Hanoi's Road to the Vietnam War, 1954-1965
Journal Article Hanoi's Road to the Vietnam War, 1954–1965 Get access Pierre Asselin. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013. xxii, 319 pp. $55.00.) Journal of American History, Volume 102, Issue 1, June 2015, Pages 298–299, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jav211 Published: 01 June 2015
Aid Under Fire
Aid Under Fire explores American nation building and modernization efforts in South Vietnam during the decade leading up to the full-scale ground war.Beginning in the mid-1950s, American nation builders traveled to southern Vietnam, eager to help establish a permanent non-Communist state that would advance US interests in Asia.Ignoring the political concerns of the majority of the Vietnamese people, they supported the South Vietnamese government …
Scratching the Surface
The Vietnam War, a new documentary by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, is one of the filmmakers’ most ambitious projects. The ten-episode series aired on PBS last fall and seeks to be a definitive and comprehensive narrative history of the war. Burns and Novick focus on the period from 1965 to 1973, when American ground troops fought alongside the South Vietnamese. In an effort to explain how the war has profoundly affected American society and culture…
Dayna L. Barnes. Architects of Occupation
Most Americans view the Allied occupation of Japan after the Second World War as an example of a “good” occupation. Within a few years, a relatively small group of Americans and other foreigners directed Japan’s dramatic transformation from a militaristic and aggressive imperial power into a peaceful trading partner and a beacon of democracy in the region. Dayna Barnes’s Architects of Occupation offers a fascinating glimpse into the policymaking …
After Saigon's Fall
In the crowded field of scholarship on American involvement in Vietnam, it is rare for a study to come along that truly breaks new ground. Yet this is exactly what Amanda C. Demmer's excellent, pathbreaking book does. After Saigon's Fall is an original, nuanced, and well-written examination of relations between the United States and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam in the post-1975 period. Demmer offers a comprehensive and compelling account of …
Political science (6 works) · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies (6 works) · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis (5 works) · History (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Vietnam War (5 works) · Economic history (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works)