Vietnam was the most controversial and diverse war in 20th-century American History. Its legacy of confusion and contention continues to mar our understanding of what happened and why - and what Vietnam means for future generations. This volume sets out to shed light on the people, events and actions involved in the war. It contains three types of articles: brief, dictionary-like entries (50 to 1000 words) for easy reference to personalities, military units, and battles; longer articles (1000 to 2500 words) on major figures ...
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Vietnam was the most controversial and diverse war in 20th-century American History. Its legacy of confusion and contention continues to mar our understanding of what happened and why - and what Vietnam means for future generations. This volume sets out to shed light on the people, events and actions involved in the war. It contains three types of articles: brief, dictionary-like entries (50 to 1000 words) for easy reference to personalities, military units, and battles; longer articles (1000 to 2500 words) on major figures such as John F. Kennedy, Ho Chi Minh and Henry Kissinger; and extended essays (5000 to 10,000 words) that describe and interpret major themes including The Land and the People of Vietnam, Diplomacy, The Search for Peace The War at Home and The Media. The encyclopaedia is well illustrated with more than 200 maps, photographs and drawings that add important visual information to this text. For ease of use, the encyclopaedia is in alphabetical order with extensive cross-references, blind entries, and bibliographies.
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Very good in Very good jacket. Format is approximately 8.75 inches by 11.25 inches. This book is approximately 2 inches think. xxxiv, [2], 711, [5] pages. Endpaper Maps. List of Maps. Illustrations. Directory of Contributors. Chronology. Table of Abbreviations and acronyms. Bibliographic Guide. Gulf of Tonkin Resolution. Paris Peace Accords. Medal of Honor Winners. Synoptic Outline Index. DJ is in a plastic sleeve. This is a large, heavy book that will require additional shipping if sent outside of the United States. More than five hundred entries cover the people, places, military actions, policies, strategies, tactics, weapons, domestic politics, and diplomacy of the war. The major essays are: American Perspectives, Antiwar Movement, Art and Literature, Colonialism, Diplomacy, Media and the war, Prelude to U.S. Combat Intervention, Strategy and Tactics, Vietnam, and Vietnamese Perspectives. Among the listed contributors is Robert Dallek! Stanley Ira Kutler (August 10, 1934-April 7, 2015) was an American historian, best known for his lawsuit against the National Archives and Richard Nixon that won the release of tape recordings Nixon made during his White House years, particularly those in relation to the Watergate scandal. He was an instructor in history at Pennsylvania State University (1960-1962) and then taught at San Diego State University (assistant professor 1962-1964); In 1964, he was hired in the Department of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison associate professor 1964-1970, professor of history 1970-1994 and thereafter as professor emeritus). He has written widely in a number of fields of American history, concentrating on American constitutional history and the twentieth century. His earliest book was Judicial Power and Reconstruction Politics. His other major books include The Wars of Watergate; The American Inquisition, winner of the Silver Gavel Award, American Bar Association, 1983; Privilege and Creative Destruction: The Charles River Bridge Case. He has authored or edited more than half a dozen textbooks in various fields of American history. His scholarly articles have appeared in leading history and legal periodicals. Prominent among his published works are editing the new edition of the Dictionary of American History, a ten-volume work, which was awarded the American Library Association Best Reference Book Award. He also edited the four-volume Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century America and The Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War. The Vietnam volume received the A.L.A. 's Best Reference Prize in 1996, and the 20th Century work was awarded the prize for the best reference work by the Association of Book Publishers. Kutler founded Reviews in American History and edited it from 1972 to 1997.
