Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction: Inventing Vietnam
- 2 The Cold War, Colonialism, and the Origins of the American Commitment to Vietnam, 1945–1954
- 3 “The Needs Are Enormous, the Time Short”: Michigan State University, the U.S. Operations Mission, State Building, and Vietnam
- 4 Surviving the Crises: Southern Vietnam, 1958–1960
- 5 “A Permanent Mendicant”: Southern Vietnam, 1960–1963
- 6 A Period of Shakedown: Southern Vietnam, 1963–1965
- 7 The Paradox of Construction and Destruction: Southern Vietnam, 1966–1968
- Epilogue: War, Politics, and the End in Vietnam
- Bibliography
- Index
Index
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction: Inventing Vietnam
- 2 The Cold War, Colonialism, and the Origins of the American Commitment to Vietnam, 1945–1954
- 3 “The Needs Are Enormous, the Time Short”: Michigan State University, the U.S. Operations Mission, State Building, and Vietnam
- 4 Surviving the Crises: Southern Vietnam, 1958–1960
- 5 “A Permanent Mendicant”: Southern Vietnam, 1960–1963
- 6 A Period of Shakedown: Southern Vietnam, 1963–1965
- 7 The Paradox of Construction and Destruction: Southern Vietnam, 1966–1968
- Epilogue: War, Politics, and the End in Vietnam
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Inventing VietnamThe United States and State Building, 1954–1968, pp. 263 - 268Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2008