Replacing France: The Origins of American Intervention in Vietnam

by Kathryn C. Statler

Book Overview

Using recently released archival materials from the United States and Europe, Replacing France: The Origins of American Intervention in Vietnam explains how and why the United States came to assume control as the dominant western power in Vietnam during the 1950s. Acting on their conviction that American methods had a better chance of building a stable, noncommunist South Vietnamese nation, Eisenhower administration officials systematically ejected...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813193303
• ISBN13: 9780813193304
• Release Date: November 2009
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher