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Written for undergradaute courses on postwar American foreign
policy, Southeast Asian history, the Cold War, the Vietnam war,
international relations, decolonization, and third world communism,
this introduction uses the wealth of recent research to place the
Vietnam war within the contexts of European colonization, American
Cold War strategy and Vietnam's own political history
Written for undergradaute courses on postwar American foreign
policy, Southeast Asian history, the Cold War, the Vietnam war,
international relations, decolonization, and third world communism,
this introduction uses the wealth of recent research to place the
Vietnam war within the contexts of European colonization, American
Cold War strategy and Vietnam's own political history
Covering the development of the atomic bomb during the Second World
War, the origins and early course of the Cold War, and the advent
of the hydrogen bomb in the early 1950s, Churchill and the Bomb
explores a still neglected aspect of Winston Churchill's career -
his relationship with and thinking on nuclear weapons. Kevin Ruane
shows how Churchill went from regarding the bomb as a weapon of war
in the struggle with Nazi Germany to viewing it as a weapon of
communist containment (and even punishment) in the early Cold War
before, in the 1950s, advocating and arguably pioneering what would
become known as "mutually assured destruction" as the key to
preventing the Cold War flaring into a calamitous nuclear war.
While other studies of Churchill have touched on his evolving views
on nuclear weapons, few historians have given this hugely important
issue the kind of dedicated and sustained treatment it deserves. In
Churchill and the Bomb, however, Kevin Ruane has undertaken
extensive primary research in Britain, the United States and
Europe, and accessed a wide array of secondary literature, in
producing an immensely readable yet detailed, insightful and
provocative account of Churchill's nuclear hopes and fears.
The main premise "The Vietnam Wars" is that Vietnam experienced not
one but several over-lapping and often inter-dependent wars. This
lively new source book chronicles the history of one of the
bloodiest and most controversial conflicts of the twentieth
century, beginning with the birth of the Vietnamese communist party
in 1930 and ending with the triumph of the Vietnamese revolution in
1975. Through a series of short essays, but most especially through
the documents themselves, the book illustrates and illuminates both
the conflict and the main historical debates about its origins,
course and consequences.
In the spring of 1954 the war in Vietnam between the French and the
communist-led Vietminh came to a head. With French forces reeling,
the United States prepared to intervene militarily to prevent the
further spread of communism. Turning to its allies, first and
foremost Britain, to join in what the Secretary of State John
Foster Dulles called a 'united action' coalition. Far from agreeing
to participate in a coalition, the British government set out to
frustrate US military plans and to work instead for a peaceful
negotiated resolution. Ultimately fearing eruption of a Third World
War from US intervention, the British envoy led by Foreign
Secretary Anthony Eden managed to broker a peaceful outcome.
Professors Kevin Ruane and Matthew Jones chart the history of this
last occasion when British diplomacy played a key if not decisive
role in resolving a fundamental issue of war and peace. Eden's
diplomatic victory over the Americans in 1954 is nearly always
overshadowed by the catastrophic political outcome for Britain and
Eden in the Suez Crisis two year later. This book, however, seeks
to counter some of the retrospective blight that Suez has cast over
his pre-1956 career and realign Eden's reputation with a more
balanced perspective, taking a larger view of his influence on
peace in Southeast Asia.
Covering the development of the atomic bomb during the Second World
War, the origins and early course of the Cold War, and the advent
of the hydrogen bomb in the early 1950s, Churchill and the Bomb in
War and Cold War explores a still neglected aspect of Winston
Churchill's career - his relationship with and thinking on nuclear
weapons. Kevin Ruane shows how Churchill went from regarding the
bomb as a weapon of war in the struggle with Nazi Germany to
viewing it as a weapon of communist containment (and even
punishment) in the early Cold War before, in the 1950s, advocating
and arguably pioneering "mutually assured destruction" as the key
to preventing the Cold War flaring into a calamitous nuclear war.
While other studies of Churchill have touched on his evolving views
on nuclear weapons, few historians have given this hugely important
issue the kind of dedicated and sustained treatment it deserves. In
Churchill and the Bomb in War and Cold War, however, Kevin Ruane
has undertaken extensive primary research in Britain, the United
States and Europe, and accessed a wide array of secondary
literature, in producing an immensely readable yet detailed,
insightful and provocative account of Churchill's nuclear hopes and
fears.
In the spring of 1954, after eight years of bitter fighting, the
war in Vietnam between the French and the communist-led Vietminh
came to a head. With French forces reeling, the United States
planned to intervene militarily to shore-up the anti-communist
position. Turning to its allies for support, first and foremost
Great Britain, the US administration of Dwight D. Eisenhower sought
to create what Secretary of State John Foster Dulles called a
"united action" coalition. In the event, Winston Churchill's
Conservative government refused to back the plan. Fearing that
US-led intervention could trigger a wider war in which the United
Kingdom would be the first target for Soviet nuclear attack, the
British Foreign Secretary, Anthony Eden, was determined to act as
Indochina peacemaker - even at the cost of damage to the
Anglo-American "special relationship". In this important study,
Kevin Ruane and Matthew Jones revisit a Cold War episode in which
British diplomacy played a vital role in settling a crucial
question of international war and peace. Eden's diplomatic triumph
at the 1954 Geneva Conference on Indochina is often overshadowed by
the 1956 Suez Crisis which led to his political downfall. This
book, however, recalls an earlier Eden: a skilled and experienced
international diplomatist at the height of his powers who may well
have prevented a localised Cold War crisis escalating into a
general Third World War.
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