Written for undergradaute courses on postwar American foreign policy, Southeast Asian history, the Cold War, the Vietnam war, international relations, decolonization, and third world communism, this introduction uses the wealth of recent research to place the Vietnam war within the contexts of European colonization, American Cold War strategy and Vietnam's own political history
Communism and Colonialism in Vietnam, 1930-46 The French War, 1946-54 From Peace to War, 1954-63 The Americanization of the War, 1964-68 American Defeat and Communist Victory, 1968-75 Conclusion - Vietnam and the World, 1975-95
