Hanoi's War
An International History of the War for Peace in Vietnam
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5705949 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David L Anderson (0000-0001-5061-0008, California State University, Monterey Bay, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 100 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 278-279 |
| Publication date | 2013-06-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of American History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8723 • E-ISSN: 1945-2314 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/jahist/jat084 |
| OpenAlex | W1968802941 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
Hanoi's War is the book for which historians of the American war in Vietnam have been waiting: the first comprehensive study drawn from Vietnamese archival and published sources that provides a critical examination of North Vietnam's strategic decisions. There is no other work like it in English, Vietnamese, or any other language. Lien-Hang T. Nguyen has made a pathbreaking contribution to historical understanding of the war. The author takes a balanced position that “there were no clear winners, only leaders who were willing to go to war over their contested visions for the future of Vietnam” (p. 11). She readily acknowledges that the book is not a definitive study of America's enemy because key party and government records remain closed to scholars. As an international history, however, Nguyen's work gives agency, to use the popular term, to Hanoi and Saigon as well as Moscow and Beijing in the causes and outcomes of the conflict. It complements the detailed studies of U.S. agency that the accessibility of American records has made possible
Adversary · Agency (philosophy · Economic history · Government (linguistics · Political science · Social science · Sociology · Spanish Civil War · Vietnam War · Vietnamese · Vision · Anthropology · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · History · Law · Public Administration · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
Sovereignty, intervention, and social order in revolutionary times
The Vietnam Syndrome’ and the end of the post-‘Sixties’ era
État de littérature. L'histoire des relations internationales aujourd'hui
Explaining Factional Sorting in China and Vietnam
The ‘Most Distinguished Envoy of Peace’
Towards a Pax Cubana
| Citations per year | 0.46 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2013 - 2022 (10) |
| Highly cited | No |