Format:
1 online resource (ix, 318 pages)
,
digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9781108770354
Series Statement:
Cambridge studies in US foreign relations
Content:
Few historians of the Vietnam War have covered the post-1975 era or engaged comprehensively with refugee politics, humanitarianism, and human rights as defining issues of the period. After Saigon's Fall is the first major work to uncover this history. Amanda C. Demmer offers a new account of the post-War normalization of US-Vietnam relations by centering three major transformations of the late twentieth century: the reassertion of the US Congress in American foreign policy; the Indochinese diaspora and changing domestic and international refugee norms; and the intertwining of humanitarianism and the human rights movement. By tracing these domestic, regional, and global phenomena, After Saigon's Fall captures the contingencies and contradictions inherent in US-Vietnamese normalization. Using previously untapped archives to recover a riveting narrative with both policymakers and nonstate advocates at its center, Demmer's book also reveals much about US politics and society in the last quarter of the twentieth century.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Apr 2021)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781108488389
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781108726276
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781108488389
Language:
English
Keywords:
USA
;
Einwanderungspolitik
;
Flüchtling
;
Vietnam
DOI:
10.1017/9781108770354
