Assuming the burden : Europe and the American commitment to war in Vietnam / Mark Atwood Lawrence.

Collection type	Library
Author	Lawrence, Mark Atwood.; American Council of Learned Societies;
Call Number	959.70412 L422a
Document type	Monograph
Year	c2005.
Pagination	xii, 358 p. ; 24 cm.
Publisher	University of California Press,
Note	Includes bibliographical references (p. 333-345) and index. "This researched book explains why and how the United States made its first commitment to Vietnam in the late 1940s. Mark Atwood Lawrence deftly explores the process by which the Western powers set aside their fierce disagreements over colonialism and extended the Cold War fight into the Third World. Drawing on an unprecedented array of sources from three countries, Lawrence illuminates the background of the U.S. government's decision in 1950 to send military equipment and economic aid to bolster France in its war against revolutionaries. That decision, he argues, marked America's first definitive step toward embroilment in Indochina, the start of a long series of moves that would lead the Johnson administration to commit U.S. combat forces a decade and a half later."--BOOK JACKET.
Place made	Berkeley :

Abstract

Contesting Vietnam -- Visions of Indochina and the world -- U.S. assistance and its limits -- Illusions of autonomy -- Constructing Vietnam -- Crisis renewed -- Domestic divides, foreign solutions -- Closing the circle.