Rubber and the Making of Vietnam: An Ecological History, 1897-1975, Michitake Aso

Автор: Grandolini Albert
Название: Target Saigon. Volume 3: The Final Collapse, March - April 1975
ISBN: 1912390191 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781912390199
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Описание: The third volume in this series describes the final communist offensive against South Vietnam. The decision of President Nguyen Van Thieu to evacuate the Central Highlands spread panic among the population and the armed forces. That was part of a wider scheme that envisaged an extensive redeployment of South Vietnamese forces leading to the abandoning of nearly half of the country. This set up a chain reaction that would see the complete collapse of his country. The United States did not intervene again despite the situation spiralling out of control. Thieu played and lost. This volume details the disastrous evacuation of Hue and Da Nang, as well as the delaying fighting in the central coastal area. However, around Saigon, the remaining cornered South Vietnamese divisions offered a heroic resistance, although it was now too late. The North Vietnamese later recognized that they experienced some of the fiercest fighting of the entire war for the conquest of the capital of South Vietnam. Only the nomination of a “neutralist” President who had replaced Thieu, who fled into exile in Taiwan, spared the city the horror of the street fighting by accepting the inescapable and by proclaiming an unconditional surrender. In panic, the last Americans and westerners were evacuated by helicopters. As always, this volume is supported by a large number of previously unpublished photographs, colour maps and colour profiles showing camouflage and markings of tanks and aircraft.

Автор: Preston Thomas
Название: Pandora`s Trap: Presidential Decision Making and Blame Avoidance in Vietnam and Iraq
ISBN: 0742562646 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780742562646
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Описание: How important is presidential personality and leadership style in foreign policy decisions? To answer this question, Thomas Preston takes readers inside the Bush administration's decision-making process and use of intelligence to better understand how administration officials justified the Iraq War--and how they sought to avoid blame for the consequences of their actions. Based on extensive interviews with key Bush administration officials, Preston offers students of American foreign policy, presidential decision making, the dynamics of blame avoidance, and future practitioners with an in depth examination of how presidential personality and leadership style impacted Bush's central foreign policy failure. In addition, Preston looks critically at the oft-cited comparisons of Iraq to Lyndon Johnson's leadership during the Vietnam War, exploring where the analogy fits and a number of important differences. He shows how both presidents' styles exacerbated their managerial weaknesses in these cases and the limits of blame avoidance strategies. The book provides a cautionary tale for future leaders to consider more carefully the long-term consequences of satisfying their short term policy desires by lifting the lid to any new Pandora's trap.

Автор: Olga Dror
Название: Making Two Vietnams: War and Youth Identities, 1965–1975
ISBN: 1108470122 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108470124
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: This comparative study of North and South Vietnam, the first of its kind, shows how young Vietnamese were raised during the war. Through the prism of adult-youth relations, it analyzes how the two societies dealt with their wartime experience and strove to shape their futures.

Автор: Xavier Arnauld de Sartre, Monica Castro, Simon Dufour, Johan Oszwald
Название: «Political ecology» des services ecosystemiques
ISBN: 2875741977 ISBN-13(EAN): 9782875741974
Издательство: Peter Lang
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Описание: La notion de services ecosystemiques s’est recemment imposee comme un mot d’ordre de la gouvernance environnementale. Rejetee en bloc ou adoptee de maniere acritique, cette notion fait le buzz dans la science globale. Suivant une demarche de political ecology qui combine des approches de sociologie des sciences, de geographie politique et de cartographie critique, cet ouvrage propose une analyse critique de la notion de services ecosystemiques et cherche a en delimiter le perimetre de validite. Apres en avoir analyse l’histoire et l’evolution recente, les auteurs analysent son appropriation dans les arenes de la gouvernance environnementale globale et par les ONG critiques de cette gouvernance, ainsi que dans les politiques publiques de pays forestiers tropicaux (Bresil et Gabon). Ces analyses posent les bases d’une analyse critique de la modelisation et de la cartographie de services ecosystemiques fondee a la fois sur une revue de la litterature existante et sur l’analyse de donnees recueillies dans le cadre de fronts pionniers tropicaux (au Bresil et en Colombie).

Автор: K. W. Taylor
Название: Voices from the Second Republic of South Vietnam (1967–1975)
ISBN: 0877277958 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780877277958
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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The Republic of (South) Vietnam is commonly viewed as a unified entity throughout the two decades (1955–75) during which the United States was its main ally. However, domestic politics during that time followed a dynamic trajectory from authoritarianism to chaos to a relatively stable experiment in parliamentary democracy. The stereotype of South Vietnam that appears in most writings, both academic and popular, focuses on the first two periods to portray a caricature of a corrupt, unstable dictatorship and ignores what was achieved during the last eight years.

The essays in Voices from the Second Republic of South Vietnam (1967–1975) come from those who strove to build a constitutional structure of representative government during a war for survival with a totalitarian state. Those committed to realizing a noncommunist Vietnamese future placed their hopes in the Second Republic, fought for it, and worked for its success. This book is a step in making their stories known.

Автор: Wiest, Andy
Название: The Vietnam War 1956–1975
ISBN: 1841764191 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781841764191
Издательство: Osprey
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Описание: America entered the Vietnam War certain of its moral mission to save the world from the advance of communism. As this title explains, however, the war was not at all what the US expected. Outnumbered and outgunned the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces resorted to a guerrilla war.

Автор: Nalty Bernard C., Air Force History Museums Program
Название: Air War Over South Vietnam 1968-1975
ISBN: 1780394446 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781780394442
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Автор: Taylor K. W.
Название: Voices from the Second Republic of South Vietnam (1967 1975)
ISBN: 0877277656 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780877277651
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The Republic of (South) Vietnam is commonly viewed as a unified entity throughout the two decades (1955–75) during which the United States was its main ally. However, domestic politics during that time followed a dynamic trajectory from authoritarianism to chaos to a relatively stable experiment in parliamentary democracy. The stereotype of South Vietnam that appears in most writings, both academic and popular, focuses on the first two periods to portray a caricature of a corrupt, unstable dictatorship and ignores what was achieved during the last eight years.

The essays in Voices from the Second Republic of South Vietnam (1967–1975) come from those who strove to build a constitutional structure of representative government during a war for survival with a totalitarian state. Those committed to realizing a noncommunist Vietnamese future placed their hopes in the Second Republic, fought for it, and worked for its success. This book is a step in making their stories known.

Автор: Havens Thomas R. H.
Название: Fire Across the Sea: The Vietnam War and Japan 1965-1975
ISBN: 0691609853 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691609850
Издательство: Wiley
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Professor Havens analyzes the efforts of Japanese antiwar organizations to portray the war as much more than a fire across the sea" and to create new forms of activism in a country where individuals have traditionally left public issues to the authorities. This path-breaking study examines not only the methods of the protesters but the tightrope dance performed by Japanese officials forced to balance outspoken antiwar sentiment with treaty obligations to the U.S.

Originally published in 1987.

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Автор: Albert Grandolini
Название: Target Saigon: The Fall of South Vietnam: Volume 2: The Beginning of the End, January 1974 – March 1975
ISBN: 1911512927 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781911512929
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Описание: Drawing on a wide range of Vietnamese-language sources, the author presents a detailed account of the continuing efforts of North Vietnam to invade the South, enlivened by a large number of previously unpublished photographs, and colour profiles for modellers. A year after the Paris peace accord had been signed, on 17 January 1973, peace had not been settled in Vietnam. During that period, the North Vietnamese continued their attacks now that the United States had pulled out completely their forces, with the definitive conquest of South Vietnam as the goal. The South Vietnamese forces’ erosion on the field increased in face of a series of concerted North Vietnamese offensives at Corps level. The drastic American aid reduction began to impact heavily on the South Vietnamese ability to wage war. Equally, Saigon could not respond to a Chinese invasion of the Paracel Islands after a brief naval battle, and if Hanoi had been bolstered by massive deliveries of equipment from Peking and Moscow, both the Chinese and the Soviet had withheld the delivery of sufficient ammunitions for the artillery and the tanks, to deter the North Vietnamese from attempting a new widescale offensive against the South. It was with these constraints that the North Vietnamese leadership planned their new campaign, initially expecting it to take 2 to 3 years. A last test had to be done in order to assess the American intentions in case of an all-out North Vietnamese offensive against the South - if a South Vietnamese provincial capital was taken without American reaction, then Hanoi would begin the last campaign of the war. After the fall of Phuoc Long, the North Vietnamese decided to attack the strategic Central Highlands area where they hoped to destroy the greater part of an ARVN Corps. The battle of Ban Me Thuout would be the pivotal event leading to the rapid collapse of South Vietnam. While the battle was going on, without taking advices from his generals, President Nguyen Van Thieu of South Vietnam decided to take radical measures by redeploying his forces. That meant abandoning no less than half of the country, in order to shorter his logistic communication lines and to concentrate his remaining depleted forces around Saigon and the Mekong Delta area. He probably also hoped that by aggravating the military situation he would force Washington to fulfil its promise that “in case of massive violation of the cease-fire”, the Americans would resume their military aid and would send back the B-52s.

Автор: Francillon Rene J.
Название: Tonkin Gulf Yacht Club: Us Carrier Operations Off Vietnam 1964 - 1975
ISBN: 2490489003 ISBN-13(EAN): 9782490489008
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Описание: This book will provide accurately facts, history, figures, and high quality photos of all the U. S. carriers and plane models in the Vietnam War. Details for each carrier include dates for each deployment, number of planes lost, number enemy planes shot down.

Автор: Michitake Aso
Название: Rubber and the Making of Vietnam: An Ecological History, 1897-1975
ISBN: 1469637146 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781469637143
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Описание: Dating back to the nineteenth-century transplantation of a latex-producing tree from the Amazon to Southeast Asia, rubber production has wrought monumental changes worldwide. During a turbulent Vietnamese past, rubber transcended capitalism and socialism, colonization and decolonization, becoming a key commodity around which life and history have revolved. In this pathbreaking study, Michitake Aso narrates how rubber plantations came to dominate the material and symbolic landscape of Vietnam and its neighbors, structuring the region's environment of conflict and violence. Tracing the stories of agronomists, medical doctors, laborers, and leaders of independence movements, Aso demonstrates how postcolonial socialist visions of agriculture and medicine were informed by their colonial and capitalist predecessors in important ways. As rubber cultivation funded infrastructural improvements and the creation of a skilled labor force, private and state-run plantations became landscapes of oppression, resistance, and modernity.

Synthesizing archival material in English, French, and Vietnamese, Aso uses rubber plantations as a lens to examine the entanglements of nature, culture, and politics and demonstrates how the demand for rubber has impacted nearly a century of war and, at best, uneasy peace in Vietnam.