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Agent Orange: History, Science, and the Politics of Uncertainty
Taking on what one former U.S. ambassador called "the last ghost of the Vietnam War," this book examines the far-reaching impact of Agent Orange, the most infamous of the dioxin-contaminated herbicides used by American forces in Southeast Asia. Edwin A. Martini's aim is not simply to reconstruct the... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2012 -
At War: The Military and American Culture in the Twentieth Century and Beyond (War Culture)
by Susan L. Carruthers • Katherine Ellison • Scott Laderman • Christine Knauer • William Watson • John M. Kinder • Jennifer Mittelstadt • David Kieran • Jana K. Lipman • Edwin A. Martini • Mark R. Wilson • Christopher Hamner • Sahr Conway-Lanz • Stefan Aune • Nick Witham • Wilbur J. Scott • Kara Dixon Vuic • Richard P. Tucker • Bonnie M. Miller • Professor G. Kurt PiehlerThe country’s wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, its interventions around the world, and its global military presence make war, the military, and militarism defining features of contemporary American life. The armed services and the wars they fight shape all aspects of life—from the formation of racial a... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
Four Decades On: Vietnam, the United States, and the Legacies of the Second Indochina War
In Four Decades On, historians, anthropologists, and literary critics examine the legacies of the Second Indochina War, or what most Americans call the Vietnam War, nearly forty years after the United States finally left Vietnam. They address matters such as the daunting tasks facing the Vietnamese... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2013