America, the Vietnam War, and the World : Comparative and International Perspectives Book

	Contributors
	Preface
	Introduction: America's War and the World	1
1	A Colonial War in a Postcolonial Era: The United States' Occupation of Vietnam	27
2	Visions of the Asian Periphery: Vietnam (1964-1968) and the Philippines (1898-1900)	43
3	The Challenge of Revolutions and the Emergence of Nation-States: British Reactions to the Foundation of the United States and American Responses to the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, 1780-1980	65
4	Peripheral War: A Recipe for Disaster? The United States in Vietnam and Japan in China	89
5	The Panmunjom and Paris Armistices: Patterns of War Termination	105
6	Versailles and Vietnam: Coming to Terms with War	123
7	Who Paid for America's War? Vietnam and the International Monetary System, 1960-1975	151
8	America Isolated: The Western Powers and the Escalation of the War	175
9	Bamboo in the Shadows: Relations Between the United States and Thailand During the Vietnam War	197
10	The Strategic Concerns of a Regional Power: Australia's Involvement in the Vietnam War	221
11	People's Warfare Versus Peaceful Coexistence: Vietnam and the Sino-Soviet Struggle for Ideological Supremacy	237
12	The Center-Left Government in Italy and the Escalation of the Vietnam War	259
13	Auschwitz and Vietnam: West German Protest Against America's War During the 1960s	279
14	The World Peace Council and the Antiwar Movement in East Germany	299
15	All Power to the Imagination! Antiwar Activism and Emerging Feminism in the Late 1960s	321
16	Vietnam: Many Wars?	341
	Index	357