Author: Gareth PorterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Land reform
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
The Myth of the Bloodbath
Author: Gareth PorterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Land reform
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
Bloodbath
Author: Indochina Resource CenterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Vietnam
Languages : en
Pages : 11
Book Description
Aid Under Fire
Author: Jessica ElkindPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813167167
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
In the aftermath of World War II, as longstanding empires collapsed and former colonies struggled for independence, the United States employed new diplomatic tools to counter unprecedented challenges to its interests across the globe. Among the most important new foreign policy strategies was development assistance -- the attempt to strengthen alliances by providing technology, financial aid, and administrators to fledgling states in order to disseminate and inculcate American values and practices in local populations. While the US implemented development programs in several nations, nowhere were these policies more significant than in Vietnam. In Aid Under Fire, Jessica Elkind examines US nation-building efforts in the fledgling South Vietnamese state during the decade preceding the full-scale ground war. Based on American and Vietnamese archival sources as well as on interviews with numerous aid workers, this study vividly demonstrates how civilians from the official US aid agency as well as several nongovernmental organizations implemented nearly every component of nonmilitary assistance given to South Vietnam during this period, including public and police administration, agricultural development, education, and public health. However, despite the sincerity of American efforts, most Vietnamese citizens understood US-sponsored programs to be little more than a continuation of previous attempts by foreign powers to dominate their homeland. Elkind convincingly argues that, instead of reexamining their core assumptions or altering their approach as the violence in the region escalated, US policymakers and aid workers only strengthened their commitment to nation building, increasingly modifying their development goals to support counterinsurgency efforts. Aid Under Fire highlights the important role played by nonstate actors in advancing US policies and reveals in stark terms the limits of American power and influence during the period widely considered to be the apex of US supremacy in the world.
The Bloodbath Hypothesis
Author: Daniel E. TeodoruPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Land reform
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
The Human Cost of Communism in Vietnam--II.
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security LawsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Communism
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
The Washington Connection and Third World Fascism
Author: Noam ChomskyPublisher:
ISBN: 9780919618893
Category : Civil rights Developing countries
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the JudiciaryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Administrative procedure
Languages : en
Pages : 1618
Book Description
The Human Cost of Communism in Vietnam
Author: Report of the Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, ... Congress, ... Session, for the Fiscal Year Ending
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security LawsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Communism
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
The "Silent Majority" Speech
Author: Scott LadermanPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351858947
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
The "Silent Majority" Speech treats Richard Nixon’s address of November 3, 1969, as a lens through which to examine the latter years of the Vietnam War and their significance to U.S. global power and American domestic life. The book uses Nixon’s speech – which introduced the policy of "Vietnamization" and cited the so-called bloodbath theory as a justification for continued U.S. involvement in Southeast Asia – as a fascinating moment around which to build an analysis of the last years of the war. For Nixon’s strategy to be successful, he requested the support of what he called the "great silent majority," a term that continues to resonate in American political culture. Scott Laderman moves beyond the war’s final years to address the administration’s hypocritical exploitation of moral rhetoric and its stoking of social divisiveness to achieve policy aims. Laderman explores the antiwar and pro-war movements, the shattering of the liberal consensus, and the stirrings of the right-wing resurgence that would come to define American politics. Supplemental primary sources make this book an ideal tool for introducing students to historical research. The "Silent Majority" Speech is critical reading for those studying American political history and U.S.–Asian/Southeast Asian relations.