Product details:
| ISBN13: | 9780367159375 |
| ISBN10: | 0367159376 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| No. of pages: | 358 pages |
| Size: | 212x133 mm |
| Weight: | 408 g |
| Language: | English |
| 247 |
Category:
Harvest Of Fear
A History Of Australia's Vietnam War
Edition number: 1
Publisher: Routledge
Date of Publication: 19 October 2020
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Short description:
This book juxtaposes Australian understandings of Vietnam with a description of colonial and postcolonial history that establishes the dynamics of revolutionary warfare in Phuoc Tuy. It evaluates the Australian army's 'counter-revolutionary warfare' strategy developed from Cold War prescriptions.
Long description:
This book juxtaposes Australian understandings of Vietnam with a description of colonial and postcolonial history that establishes the dynamics of revolutionary warfare in Phuoc Tuy. It evaluates the Australian army's 'counter-revolutionary warfare' strategy developed from Cold War prescriptions.
Table of Contents:
Introduction I: The colonial order 1. Material life in the colonial world 2. A colonial polity Patriotism 3. A trance of uncertainty, doubt and fear': Australia and Asia in the Cold War 4. 1954: To the brink II: Preparing for war 5. Ngo Dinh Diem: 'How to revive a war', 1954?1966 6. The logic of intervention: 1957?1964 7. The logics of dissent: 1957?1966 8. 1966: The Cold War mould cracks III: Intervention 9. Counter?revolution and the village: 1966?1969 10. Rice, place and revolution 11. Morbid symptoms: Australia, 1967?1969 12. The left revived IV: Withdrawal 13. The Moratorium 14. Things fall apart 15. Conclusion
