The End of Ambition: The United States and the Third World in the Vietnam Era 9780691226552, 9780691126401, 0691226555

End of Ambition, The: The United States and the Third World in the Vietnam Era 9780691126401, 9780691226552, 0691126402

A groundbreaking new history of how the Vietnam War thwarted U.S. liberal ambitions in the developing world and at home

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Ambition and Politics: Political Careers in the United States

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Cooperation for International Development: The United States and the Third World in the 1990s 9781685858605

The authors conclude that a revitalized - and refocused - development program should concentrate on the goals of broad-b

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Tail End Charlie: Memoir of a United States Marine in the Vietnam War 0786417161, 9780786417162

This memoir is a record of what Jensen calls the luckiest and greatest adventure of his life. In the midst of the fighti

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The Gulf of Tonkin: The United States and the Escalation in the Vietnam War 1315692066, 9781315692067

"The Gulf of Tonkin: The United States and the Escalation in the Vietnam War analyzes the events that lead to the e

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Pacifism in the United States: From the Colonial Era to the First World War 069104581X, 9780691045818

Pacifism is both an idea and a way of life. This book, in tracing its history in America from colonial times to the star

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Pacifism in the United States: From the Colonial Era to the First World War 9781400878376

Called "a pioneer work of the first importance" by Staughton Lynd, this book traces the history of pacifism in

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The Ends of Modernization: Nicaragua and the United States in the Cold War Era 9781501756221

By illustrating how ideas about ecology and sustainable development became linked to geopolitical conflict during and af

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The Politics of the United States-China-Vietnam Triangle in the 21st Century 9789814695725

Vietnam's balancing of power act, namely the policy of seeking a counterweight to the China threat, and the politic

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Empire and Revolution: The United States and the Third World Since 1945 0814208568, 9780814208564

The ten essays in this volume represent state-of-the-art surveys of ten singular episodes in U.S. interaction with the T

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