The Cambridge History of the Vietnam War: Volume 2, Escalation and Stalemate

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Lien-Hang T. Nguyen (Columbia University, New York) Andrew Preston (University of Cambridge)

The Cambridge History of the Vietnam War

Volume 2, Escalation and Stalemate

Lien-Hang T. Nguyen (Columbia University, New York), Andrew Preston (University of Cambridge)

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English

Cambridge University Press
28 November 2024

Asian history; Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000; Military history; Vietnam War

Series: The Cambridge History of the Vietnam War

In great depth, Volume II examines the escalation of the Vietnam War and its development into a violent stalemate, beginning with the overthrow of the Ngô Đình Diệm in 1963 to the aftermath of the 1968 Tết Offensive. This five-year period was, for the most part, the fulcrum of a three-decades-long struggle to determine the future of Vietnam and was marked by rival spirals of escalation generated by the Democratic Republic of Vietnam and the United States. The volume explores the war's military aspects on all sides, the politics of war in the two Vietnams and the United States, and the war's international and transnational dimensions in politics, protest, diplomacy, and economics, while also paying close attention to the agency of historical actors on both sides of the conflict in South Vietnam.

Edited by: Andrew Preston (University of Cambridge)
General editor: Lien-Hang T. Nguyen (Columbia University New York)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Volume: Volume 2
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 162mm, Spine: 41mm
Weight: 1.240kg
ISBN: 9781107105102
ISBN 10: 1107105102
Series: The Cambridge History of the Vietnam War
Pages: 712
Publication Date: 28 November 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Lien-Hang T. Nguyen holds the Dorothy Borg Chair in the History of the United States and East Asia at Columbia University. She is the author of Hanoi's War: An International History of the War for Peace (2012), which won prizes from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations and the Society for Military History. She is the co-founder of Vietnamese Studies at Columbia and serves on the Board of Trustees of Fulbright University Vietnam. Andrew Preston is Professor of American History at Clare College, University of Cambridge. A specialist in the history of US foreign relations, he is the author or editor of nine books, including American Foreign Relations: A Very Short Introduction (2019) and Sword of the Spirit, Shield of Faith: Religion in American War and Diplomacy (2012). In 2020–21, he was President of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR).