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Inventing Vietnam
- The United States and State Building, 1954–1968
Engelsk Paperback
Inventing Vietnam
- The United States and State Building, 1954–1968
Engelsk Paperback

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This book considers the Vietnam war in light of U.S. foreign policy in Vietnam, concluding that the war was a direct result of failed state-building efforts. This U.S. nation building project began in the mid-1950s with the ambitious goal of creating a new independent, democratic, modern state below the 17th parallel. No one involved imagined this effort would lead to a major and devastating war in less than a decade. Carter analyzes how the United States ended up fighting a large-scale war that wrecked the countryside, generated a flood of refugees, and brought about catastrophic economic distortions, results which actually further undermined the larger U.S. goal of building a viable state. Carter argues that, well before the Tet Offensive shocked the viewing public in late January, 1968, the campaign in southern Vietnam had completely failed and furthermore, the program contained the seeds of its own failure from the outset.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
276
ISBN-13:
9780521716901
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
052171690X
Udg. Dato:
14 apr 2008
Længde:
16mm
Bredde:
154mm
Højde:
228mm
Forlag:
Cambridge University Press
Oplagsdato:
14 apr 2008
Forfatter(e):
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