The Volume
DRAFT TABLE OF CONTENTS
The Cambridge History of the Vietnam War
Volume I: Origins
Editors: Lien-Hang T. Nguyen & Edward Miller
Introduction:
Points of Departure: Indochina and the Global Origins of the Vietnam War (Lien-Hang T. Nguyen & Edward Miller)
Part I: Colonial Legacies
- Tradition, Memory, and the History of “Vietnam” (Liam Kelly, University of Hawaii-Manoa)
- French Colonialism and the Origins of the Vietnamese Revolution (Hue-Tam Ho Tai, Harvard University)
- Ho Chi Minh and the Rise of the Vietnamese Communist Party (Pierre Brocheux, Independent Scholar)
- Indochinese politics during the “Long 1930s” (Author TBD)
- Indochina during World War II (Eric T. Jennings, University of Toronto)
- The United States and Indochina (Mark Bradley, University of Chicago)
- The August Revolution of 1945 (Stein Tønneson, Peace Research Institute Oslo)
Part II: The First Indochina War
- The Birth of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (David Marr, Australian National University)
- Empire and Decolonization in France and Indochina (Pierre Grosser, Centre D’Histoire de Sciences Po)
- The Associated States of Indochina (Author TBD)
- China, the Soviet Union, and the First Indochina War (Chen Jian, Cornell University)
- The First Indochina War in Southern Vietnam and the Mekong Delta (Philip Taylor, Australia National University)
- The First Indochina War in the Central Highlands (Oscar Salemink, University of Copenhagen)
- The First Indochina War in Northern Vietnam and the Red River Delta (Author TBD)
- The Battle of Dien Bien Phu (Christopher E. Goscha, Univ. of Quebec at Montreal)
- The Geneva Conference of 1954 (Martin Thomas, University of Exeter)
Part III: The Two Vietnams
- Eisenhower and Vietnam (David Anderson, Naval Postgraduate School)
- Ngo Dinh Diem and the birth of the Republic of Vietnam (Phi Van Nguyen, Cornell University)
- Empire and Decolonization in Cambodia (Author TBD)
- Nation Building in South Vietnam after Geneva (Jason Picard)
- Building Socialism in North Vietnam after Geneva (Peter Zinoman, UC Berkeley)
- North Vietnam and the Global Cold War (Author TBD)
- Laos between Two Wars (Vatthana Pholsena, National University of Singapore)
- The Origins of the Insurgency in South Vietnam (David Elliot, Pomona College)
- Kennedy and Vietnam (Marc Selverstone, University of Virginia)
- The Crisis of 1963 and the Diem Coup (Edward Miller, Dartmouth College)