Of all of the wars in which the U.S. has been engaged, none has been as divisive as the conflict in Vietnam. The repercussions of this unsettling episode in American history still resonate in our ...society. Although it ended more than 30 years ago, the Vietnam War continues to fascinate and trouble Americans.
The third edition of Light at the End of the Tunnel gives a full overview of the conflict. Starting with Ho Chi Minh's revolt against the French, editor Andrew J. Rotter takes the reader through the succeeding years as scholars, government officials, journalists, and others recount the important events in the conflict and examine issues that developed during this tumultuous time.
This book is essential reading for anyone who has an interest in understanding the Vietnam War. The readings in it will enlighten students about this turning point in the history of the United States and the world. The third edition includes greater coverage of the Vietnamese experience of the war and reflects the growing interest in understanding the war as an international event, not just a bilateral or trilateral conflict.
Cette thèse a pour objet la transformation de l’institution de la censure d’État du cinéma en France, entre 1961, date d’une réforme qui la durcit, à 1975, année de la mise en place de la ...classification « X » et de l’octroi de la liberté d’expression au cinéma. Son enjeu principal est d’interroger, à travers cette institution et sa mutation, ce qui se joue dans-la bifurcation des années 1968. Pour cela, cette thèse est construite autour d’un cadre théorique spécifique articulant notamment la sociologie politique des institutions et la théorie de la « civilisation » de Norbert Elias. Ses matériaux sont essentiellement des archives étatiques, mais aussi des sources imprimées comme la presse.
This thesis explores the transformation of censorship in cinema by the French state, between 1961, the date when a more strict reform was applied, and 1975, the year that classification “X” was put in place and the same year freedom of expression in cinema was also established. This is the question at stake, through this institution and its mutation, which is played in the bifurcation during “les années 1968”. Because of this, in this thesis, a specific theoretical framework is used which articulates the political sociology of the institutions and the theory of civilization by Norbert Elias. Resources were primarily conducted in state archives, but also includes printed sources from the press.
"Hunderttausende Kinder und Jugendlicher lebten während der 1950er und 1960er Jahre in der BRD in Heimen - vielfach in katholischer und evangelischer Trägerschaft. Ehemalige Heimkinder berichten von ...einem Alltag mit demütigenden Strafen, harter und unbezahlter Arbeit sowie unzureichenden Lebensbedingungen. Vor allem die Rolle und Verantwortung der Kirchen in der Heimerziehung jener Zeit stehen in der Diskussion. Dieses Buch rekonstruiert statistische Größenordnungen der Heimerziehung, ihre rechtlichen Rahmenbedingungen im Hinblick auf Erziehungsziele und Strafen, den Heimalltag und seine kirchliche Prägung, Reformkonzepte und die Professionalisierung der Erziehungsbemühungen unter den vorherrschenden schwierigen Voraussetzungen. Am Beispiel der Musterregionen Niedersachsen, Nordrhein-Westfalen und Bayern werden u.a. in neun Mikrostudien unter Einbeziehung von Interviews mit ehemaligen Heimkindern und Erziehenden die Verhältnisse in unterschiedlichen Heimen beschrieben und in den historischen Kontext eingeordnet." (Verlagsangabe).
Henry Cabot Lodge became United States ambassador to South Vietnam in August 1963, a critical period in the evolution of American policy there. During the first of Lodge's two embassies in Saigon, a ...U.S. government-approved coup overthrew President Diem of South Vietnam and another U.S.-inspired coup brought to power a Vietnamese general trained in America. This book focuses on Lodge's ambassadorship from 1963 to June 1964, examining the constraints and possibilities inherent in the Vietnam situation at that time and revealing the role Lodge played in shaping President Lyndon Johnson's 1965 decision to commit U.S. troops to the war.Anne Blair is the first to draw on Lodge's collected papers, including an unpublished memoir, as well as on previously unavailable U.S. Saigon Embassy reports and on interviews with former U.S. officials and others who served with Lodge in Vietnam and Washington. According to Blair, Lodge felt strongly that U.S. troops should not be involved in the war, but his sense of the proper conduct of foreign affairs prevented him from opening a public debate on the matter. In addition, after the coup against Diem, Lodge regarded his mission in Saigon as completed and was disengaged in the vital 1964 period when the U.S. government should have reviewed its aims and vital stakes in South Vietnam. Lodge took up the Saigon mission and stayed with it because he was a patriot. But, Blair concludes, his good intentions were not coupled with effective policymaking, and the results proved disastrous for the future.
Newsreel cinema and television not only served as an important tool in the shaping of political spheres and the construction of national and cultural identities up to the 1960s. Today’s potent ...televisual forms were furthermore developed in and strongly influenced by newsreels, and much of the archived newsreel footage is repeatedly used to both illustrate and re-stage past events and their significance. This book addresses newsreel cinema and television as a medium serving the formation of cultural identities in a variety of national contexts after 1945, its role in forming audiovisual narratives of a »biopic of the nation«, and the technical, aesthetical, and political challenges of archiving and restaging cinematic and televisual newsreel.
Nothing Ever Dies, Viet Thanh Nguyen writes. All wars are fought twice, the first time on the battlefield, the second time in memory. From the author of the bestselling novel The Sympathizer comes a ...searching exploration of a conflict that lives on in the collective memory of both the Americans and the Vietnamese.
While most historians of the Vietnam War focus on the origins of U.S. involvement and the Americanization of the conflict, Lien-Hang T. Nguyen examines the international context in which North ...Vietnamese leaders pursued the war and American intervention ended. This riveting narrative takes the reader from the marshy swamps of the Mekong Delta to the bomb-saturated Red River Delta, from the corridors of power in Hanoi and Saigon to the Nixon White House, and from the peace negotiations in Paris to high-level meetings in Beijing and Moscow, all to reveal that peace never had a chance in Vietnam.Hanoi's Warrenders transparent the internal workings of America's most elusive enemy during the Cold War and shows that the war fought during the peace negotiations was bloodier and much more wide ranging than it had been previously. Using never-before-seen archival materials from the Vietnam Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as well as materials from other archives around the world, Nguyen explores the politics of war-making and peace-making not only from the North Vietnamese perspective but also from that of South Vietnam, the Soviet Union, China, and the United States, presenting a uniquely international portrait.
