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Author Lawrence, Mark Atwood.

Title Assuming the burden : Europe and the American commitment to war in Vietnam / Mark Atwood Lawrence
Published Berkeley : University of California Press, [2005]
Berkeley : University of California Press, 2005
©2005

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 MELB  959.70412 Law/Atb  AVAILABLE
Description xii, 358 pages ; 24 cm
Series From Indochina to Vietnam : revolution and war in a global perspective ; v. 1
From Indochina to Vietnam ; v. 1
Contents 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
Summary "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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-345) and index
Subject Indochinese War, 1946-1954.
SUBJECT France -- Foreign relations -- Great Britain. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008115083
France -- Foreign relations -- United States. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008115077
Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- France. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100253
Indochina -- History -- 1945- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85065718
United States -- Foreign relations -- France. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100030
United States -- Foreign relations -- Vietnam. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100031
Vietnam -- Foreign relations -- United States. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008113221
Author American Council of Learned Societies.
LC no. 2004020239
ISBN 0520243153 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780520251625 (paperback)