Books and Articles
Adamson, Michael R. “‘The Most Important Single Aspect of Our Foreign Policy’? The Eisenhower Administration, Foreign Aid, and the Third World.” In The Eisenhower Administration, the Third World, and the Globalization of the Cold War. Eds. Statler, Kathryn C. and Johns, Andrew L.. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2006, 47–72.
Adas, Michael. Dominance by Design: Technological Imperatives and America’s Civilizing Mission. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2006.
Ahern, Thomas L. Jr. CIA and Rural Pacification in South Vietnam. Langley, VA: Center for the Study of Intelligence, declassified 2007.
Ahern, Thomas L. CIA and the House of Ngo. Langley, VA: Center for the Study of Intelligence, declassified 2009.
Allen, Luther, and An, Pham Ngoc. A Vietnamese District Chief in Action. Washington, DC: Department of State, Agency for International Development, 1963.
Almond, Gabriel, and Coleman, James S., eds. The Politics of Developing Areas. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1960.
Anderson, Benedict. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism. Rev. ed. London: Verso, 1991.
Anderson, Benedict. The Spectre of Comparisons: Nationalism, Southeast Asia and the World. London: Verso, 1998.
Anderson, David L. Trapped by Success: The Eisenhower Administration and Vietnam, 1953–1961. New York: Columbia University Press, 1991.
Arnold, James. The First Domino: Eisenhower, The Military and America’s Intervention in Vietnam. New York: W. Morrow, 1991.
Asselin, Pierre. “Le Duan, the American War, and the Creation of an Independent Vietnamese State.” Journal of American-East Asian Relations, Vol. 10, Nos. 1–2 (Spring–Summer 2001): 1–27.
Asselin, Pierre. A Bitter Peace: Washington, Hanoi, and the Making of the Paris Agreement. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2002.
Asselin, Pierre. Hanoi’s Road to the Vietnam War, 1954–1965. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2013.
Baritz, Loren. Backfire: A Brief History of How American Culture Led Us into Vietnam and Made Us Fight the Way We Did. New York: Morrow, 1985.
Bassett, Lawrence J., and Pelz, Stephen E.. “The Failed Search for Victory: Vietnam and the Politics of War.” In Kennedy’s Quest for Victory: American Foreign Policy, 1961–1963. Ed. Paterson, Thomas. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989, 223–252.
Bell, Daniel. The End of Ideology: On the Exhaustion of Political Ideas in the Fifties. Glencoe, NY: The Free Press, 1960.
Biersack, Aletta, and Hunt, Lynn, eds. The New Cultural History: Essays. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1989.
Binder, Leonard. “The Natural History of Development Theory.” Comparative Studies in Society and History, Vol. 28 (1986): 3–33.
Boot, Max. The Savage Wars of Peace: Small Wars and the Rise of American Power. New York: Basic Books, 2002.
Bouscaren, Anthony Trawick. The Last of the Mandarins: Diem of Vietnam. Pittsburgh: Duqesne University Press, 1965.
Bradley, Mark Philip. Imagining Vietnam and America: The Making of Postcolonial Vietnam, 1919–1950. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2000.
Bradley, Mark Philip. Vietnam at War. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.
Bremen, Jan. The Shattered Image: Construction and Deconstruction of the Village in Colonial Asia. Providence, RI: Forbis Publications, 1988.
Brigham, Robert K. Guerrilla Diplomacy: The NLF’s Foreign Relations and the Viet Nam War. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1999.
Brigham, Robert K. ARVN: Life and Death in the South Vietnamese Army. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2006.
Browne, Malcolm. The New Face of War. New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc., 1965.
Diem, Bui, and Chanoff, David. In the Jaws of History. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1987.
Busch, Peter. “Killing the ‘Vietcong’: The British Advisory Mission and the Strategic Hamlet Programme.” Journal of Strategic Studies, Vol. 25, No. 1 (2002): 135–162.
Buttinger, Joseph. Vietnam: A Dragon Embattled. 2 vols. New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1967.
Carter, James. Inventing Vietnam: The United States and State Building, 1954–1968. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Catton, Philip E. Diem’s Final Failure: Prelude to America’s War in Vietnam. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2002.
Chapman, Jessica M. “Staging Democracy: South Vietnam’s 1955 Referendum to Depose Bao Dai.” Diplomatic History, Vol. 30, No. 4 (September 2006): 671–703.
Chapman, Jessica M. Cauldron of Resistance: Ngo Dinh Diem, the United States, and 1950s Southern Vietnam. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2013.
Christie, Clive J. Ideology and Revolution in Southeast Asia, 1900–1975: Political Ideas of the Anti-Colonial Era. Richmond, UK: Curzon, 2001.
Colby, William, with McCargar, James. Lost Victory: A Firsthand Account of America’s Sixteen-Year Involvement in Vietnam. Chicago: Contemporary Books, 1989.
Collins, J. Lawton. Lightning Joe: An Autobiography. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 1979.
Connelly, Matthew. “Taking Off the Cold War Lens: Visions of North-South Conflict during the Algerian War for Independence.” The American Historical Review, Vol. 105, No. 3 (June 2000): 739–769.
Connelly, Matthew. A Diplomatic Revolution: Algeria’s Fight for Independence and the Origins of the Post-Cold War Era. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.
Cooper, Chester L. The Lost Crusade: America in Vietnam. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1970.
Cullather, Nick. Illusions of Influence: The Political Economy of United States-Philippines Relations, 1942–1960. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1994.
Cullather, Nick. “Development? It’s History.” Diplomatic History, Vol. 24, No. 4 (2000): 641–653.
Cullather, Nick. The Hungry World: America’s Cold War Battle Against Poverty in Asia. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2010.
Currey, Cecil B. Edward Lansdale: The Unquiet American. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1988.
Dacy, Douglas C. Foreign Aid, War, and Economic Development: South Vietnam, 1955–1975. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986.
Donnell, John C. “National Renovation Campaigns in Vietnam.” Pacific Affairs, Vol. 32, No. 1 (March 1959): 73–88.
“Personalism in Vietnam.” In Problems of Freedom: South Vietnam Since Independence. Ed. Fishel, Wesley R.. New York: Free Press of Glencoe, 1961, 29–67.
Donoghue, John D. My Thuan: A Mekong Delta Village in South Vietnam. N.P.: MSU Viet Nam Advisory Group, 1961.
Duiker, William J. The Rise of Nationalism in Vietnam, 1900–1941. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1976.
Duiker, William J. The Communist Road to Power in Vietnam. 2nd ed. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1996.
Duiker, William J.. Ho Chi Minh: A Life. New York: Theia, 2000.
Duncanson, Dennis J. Government and Revolution in Vietnam. New York: Oxford University Press, 1968.
Eisenstadt, S.N. “Studies of Modernization and Sociological Theory.” History and Theory, Vol. 13, No. 3 (1974): 225–252.
Ekbladh, David. “To Reconstruct the Medieval: Rural Reconstruction in Interwar China and the Rise of an American-Style Modernization, 1921–1961.” Journal of American-East Asian Relations, Vol. 9, Nos. 3–4 (Fall–Winter 2000): 169–196.
Ekbladh, David. “From Consensus to Crisis: The Postwar Career if Nation-Building in U.S. Foreign Relations.” In Nation-Building: Beyond Afghanistan and Iraq. Ed. Fukuyama, Francis. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006, 19–41.
Ekbladh, David. The Great American Mission: Modernization and the Construction of an American World Order. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2010.
Ekbladh, David. “Meeting the Challenge from Totalitarianism: The TVA as a Global Mode for Liberal Development, 1933–1945.” The International History Review, Vol. 32, No. 1 (March 2010): 47–67.
Elliott, David W.P. The Vietnamese War: Revolution and Social Change in the Mekong Delta, 1930–1975. 2 vols. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2003.
Engerman, David C., and Unger, Corina R.. “Introduction: Towards a Global History of Modernization.” Diplomatic History, Vol. 33, No. 3 (June 2009): 375–385.
Ernst, John. Forging a Fateful Alliance: Michigan State University and the Vietnam War. East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press, 1998.
Fall, Bernard B. “South Viet-Nam’s Internal Problems.” Pacific Affairs, Vol. 31, No. 3 (September 1958): 241–260.
Fall, Bernard B. The Two Viet-Nams: A Political and Military Analysis. 2nd rev. ed. New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1968.
Fall, Bernard B. ed. Ho Chi Minh on Revolution, Selected Writings, 1920–66 (Reprint). Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1984.
Finkle, Jason L., and Dinh, Tran Van. Provincial Government in Vietnam: A Study of Vinh Long Province. Saigon: Michigan State University Viet Nam Advisory Group and National Institute of Administration, 1961.
Fishel, Wesley R., ed. Vietnam: Anatomy of a Conflict. Itasca, IL: F.E. Peacock Publishers, 1968.
Fitzgerald, Frances. Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and Americans in Vietnam. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1972.
Fraleigh, Bert. “Counterinsurgency in South Vietnam.” In Prelude to Tragedy: Vietnam, 1960–1965. Eds. Neese, Harvey and O’Donnell, John. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2001, 86–128.
Freedman, Lawrence. Kennedy’s Wars: Berlin, Cuba, Laos, and Vietnam. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.
Frey, Marc, and Kunkel, Sönke. “Writing the History of Development: A Review of the Recent Literature.” Contemporary European History, Vol. 20, No. 2 (2011): 215–232
Gellner, Ernest. Nations and Nationalism. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1983.
Gendzier, Irene L. Managing Political Change: Social Scientists and the Third World. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1985.
Gibbons, William Conrad. The U.S. Government and the Vietnam War: Executive and Legislative Roles and Relationships Part 1, 1945–1960. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1986.
Gibbons, William Conrad. The U.S. Government and the Vietnam War: Executive and Legislative Roles and Relationships Part 2, 1961–1965. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1986.
Gilman, Nils. Mandarins of the Future: Modernization Theory in Cold War America. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003.
“Modernization Theory, the Highest Stage of American Intellectual History.” In Staging Growth: Modernization, Development and the Global Cold War. Eds. Engerman, David C., Gilman, Nils, Haefele, Mark H. and Latham, Michael E.. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 2003, 47–80.
Haefele, Mark H. “Walt Rostow’s Stages of Economic Growth: Ideas and Action.” In Staging Growth: Modernization, Development and the Global Cold War. Eds. Engerman, David C., Gilman, Nils, Haefele, Mark H. and Latham, Michael E.. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 2003, 81–105.
Halberstam, David. The Making of a Quagmire: America and Vietnam During the Kennedy Era. Third Printing. New York: Random House, 1965.
Halberstam, David. The Best and the Brightest. Twentieth anniversary ed. New York: Ballantine Books, 1992.
Hammer, Ellen J. “Progress Report on Southern Viet Nam.” Pacific Affairs, Vol. 30, No. 3 (September 1957): 221–235.
Hammer, Ellen J.. The Struggle for Indochina, 1940–1955: Viet Nam and the French Experience. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1966.
Hammer, Ellen J.. A Death in November: America in Vietnam, 1963. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987.
Harrison, James P. The Endless War: Vietnam’s Struggle for Independence. New York: Columbia University Press, 1989.
Hellman, John. Emmanuel Mounier and the New Catholic Left, 1930–1950. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1981.
Henderson, William. “South Viet Nam Finds Itself.” Foreign Affairs, Vol. 35 (January 1957): 283–294.
Hendry, James B. “American Aid in Vietnam: The View from a Village.” Pacific Affairs, Vol. 33, No. 4 (December 1960): 387–391.
Hendry, James B. The Small World of Khanh Hau. Chicago: Aldine Publishing, 1964.
Herring, George C. America’s Longest War: The United States and Vietnam, 1950–1975. New York: Wiley, 1979.
Hess, Gary R. “Commitment in the Age of Counterinsurgency: Kennedy’s Vietnam Options and Decisions, 1961–1963.” In Shadow on the White House: Presidents and the Vietnam War, 1945–1975. Ed. Anderson, David L.. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1993, 63–86.
Hess, Gary R. Vietnam and the United States: Origins and Legacy of War. Rev. ed. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1998.
Higgins, Marguerite. Our Vietnam Nightmare: The Story of U.S. Involvement in the Vietnamese Tragedy, with Thoughts on a Future Policy. New York: Harper & Row, 1965.
Hilsman, Roger. To Move a Nation: The Politics of Foreign Policy in the Administration of John F. Kennedy. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1967.
Lac, Hoang. “Blind Design.” In Prelude to Tragedy: Vietnam, 1960–1965. Eds. Neese, Harvey and O’Donnell, John. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2001, 58–85.
Tai, Hue-Tam Ho. Radicalism and the Origins of the Vietnamese Revolution. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1996.
Hunt, David. Vietnam’s Southern Revolution: From Peasant Insurrection to Total War. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 2008.
Hunt, Michael H. Ideology and U.S. Foreign Policy. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1987.
Hunt, Richard A. Pacification: The American Struggle for Vietnam’s Hearts and Minds. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1995.
Huntington, Samuel P. Political Order in Changing Societies. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1968.
Khanh, Huynh Kim. Vietnamese Communism, 1925–1945. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1986.
Immerman, Richard H. The CIA in Guatemala: The Foreign Policy of Intervention. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1982.
Immerwahr, Daniel. Thinking Small: The United States and the Lure of Community Development. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2015.
Jacobs, Seth. America’s Miracle Man in Vietnam: Ngo Dinh Diem, Religion, Race, and U.S. Intervention in Southeast Asia. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2004.
Jacobs, Seth. Cold War Mandarin: Ngo Dinh Diem and the Origins of America’s War in Vietnam, 1950–1963. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2006.
Jamieson, Neil L. Understanding Vietnam. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1993.
Jian, Chen. Mao’s China and the Cold War. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 2001.
Joiner, Charles A., and Jumper, Roy. “Organizing Bureaucrats: South Viet Nam’s National Revolutionary Civil Servants’ League.” Asian Survey (1963): 203–215.
Jones, Howard. Death of a Generation: How the Assassinations of Diem and JFK Prolonged the Vietnam War. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.
Jumper, Roy. “Mandarin Bureaucracy and Politics in South Viet Nam.” Pacific Affairs, Vol. 29, No. 4 (December 1957): 47–58.
Jumper, Roy. “Problems of Public Administration in South Viet Nam.” Far Eastern Survey, Vol. 26, No. 12 (November 1957): 183–190.
Kahin, George McTurnan. The Asian-African Conference: Bandung, Indonesia, April 1955. Port Washington, NY: Kennikat Press, 1956.
Kahin, George McTurnan. Intervention: How America Became Involved in Vietnam. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1986.
Kaiser, David. American Tragedy: Kennedy Johnson, and the Origins of the Vietnam War. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2000.
Karnow, Stanley. Vietnam: A History. 2nd revised and updated ed. New York: Penguin, 1997.
Kaufman, Burton I. Trade and Aid: Eisenhower’s Foreign Economic Policy, 1953–1961. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982.
Kemp, Jeremy. “The Dialectics of Village and State in Modern Thailand.” Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, Vol. 22, No. 2 (September 1991): 312–326.
Kershaw, Roger. Monarchy in South-East Asia: The Faces of Tradition in Transition. London: Routledge, 2001.
Kimball, Jeffrey P., ed. To Reason Why: The Debate About the Causes of U.S. Involvement in the Vietnam War. New York: McGraw-Hill Publishing Company, 1990.
Klein, Christina. Cold War Orientalism: Asia in the Middlebrow Imagination, 1945–1961. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2003.
Kolko, Gabriel. Anatomy of a War: Vietnam, the United States, and the Modern Historical Experience. New York: Pantheon Books, 1985.
Kwon, Heonik. The Other Cold War. New York: Columbia University Press, 2010.
Lacouture, Jean. Vietnam: Between Two Truces. Translated by Kellen, Konrad and Carmichael, Joel. New York: Vintage Books, 1966.
Lansdale, Edward G. In the Midst of Wars: An American’s Mission to Southeast Asia. New York: Harper & Row, 1972.
Latham, Michael E. Modernization as Ideology: American Social Science and “Nation Building” in the Kennedy Era. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 2000.
“Modernization, International History, and the Cold War World.” In Staging Growth: Modernization, Development and the Global Cold War. Eds. Engerman, David C., Gilman, Nils, Haefele, Mark H. and Latham, Michael E.. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 2003, 1–23.
Lerner, Daniel. The Passing of Traditional Society: Modernizing the Middle East. New York: The Free Press of Glencoe, 1958.
Little, Douglas. American Orientalism: The United States and the Middle East since 1945. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 2002.
Logevall, Fredrik. Choosing War: The Lost Chance for Peace and the Escalation of War in Vietnam. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1999.
Logevall, Fredrik. Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America’s Vietnam. New York: Random House, 2012
Manela, Erez. “Imagining Woodrow Wilson in Asia: Dreams of East-West Harmony and the Revolt against Empire in 1919.” The American Historical Review, Vol. 111, No. 5 (December 2006): 1327–1351.
Maneli, Mieczyslaw. War of the Vanquished. Translated by de Gorgey, Maria. New York: Harper & Row, 1971.
Mann, Robert. A Grand Delusion: America’s Descent into Vietnam. New York: Basic Books, 2001.
Marcus, John T. “Social Catholicism in Postwar France.” South Atlantic Quarterly (1957): 299–313.
Marlay, Ross, and Neher, Clark. “Part II: Vietnam.” In Patriots and Tyrants: Ten Asian Leaders. Eds. Marlay, Ross and Neher, Clark. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 1999.
Marr, David G. Vietnamese Anticolonialism, 1885–1925. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1971.
Marr, David G. Vietnamese Tradition on Trial, 1920–1945. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1984.
Masur, Matthew. “Exhibiting Signs of Resistance: South Vietnam’s Struggle for Legitimacy.” Diplomatic History, Vol. 33, No. 2 (April 2009): 293–313.
Maung, Maung. “Pyidawtha Comes to Burma.” Far Eastern Survey, Vol. 22, No. 9 (August 1953): 117–119.
McAlister, John T. Jr. Vietnam: The Origins of Revolution. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1970.
McAlister, John T., and Mus, Paul. The Vietnamese and Their Revolution. New York: Harper & Row, 1970.
McAlister, Melani. Epic Encounters: Culture Media, and U.S. Interests in the Middle East, 1945–2000. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2001.
Mecklin, John. Mission in Torment: An Intimate Account of the U.S. Role in Vietnam. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1965.
Miller, Edward. “Vision, Power and Agency: The Ascent of Ngô Đình Diệm.” Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, Vol. 35, No. 3 (October 2004): 433–458.
Miller, Edward. Misalliance: Ngo Dinh Diem, the United States and the Fate of South Vietnam. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2013.
Millikan, Max F., and Rostow, W.W.. A Proposal: Key to an Effective Foreign Policy. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1957.
Montgomery, John D. The Politics of Foreign Aid: American Experience in Southeast Asia. New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1962.
Mounier, Emmanuel. Personalism. Translated by Mairet, Philip. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd., 1952.
Moyar, Mark. Triumph Forsaken: The Vietnam War, 1954–1965. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Mus, Paul. “The Role of the Village in Vietnamese Politics.” Pacific Affairs, Vol. 22, No. 3 (September 1949): 265–272.
Nashel, Jonathan. Edward Lansdale’s Cold War. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 2005.
Nguyen, Lien-Hang T. Hanoi’s War: An International History of the War for Peace in Vietnam. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2012.
Nguyen-Marshall, Van. In Search of Moral Authority: The Discourse on Poverty, Poor Relief, and Charity in French Colonial Vietnam. New York: Peter Lang, 2008.
Nighswonger, William A. Rural Pacification in Vietnam. New York: Praeger, 1966.
Ninkovich, Frank. Modernity and Power: A History of the Domino Theory in the Twentieth Century. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1994.
Nolting, Frederick. From Trust to Tragedy: The Political Memoirs of Frederick Nolting, Kennedy’s Ambassador to Diem’s Vietnam. New York: Praeger, 1988.
O’Donnell, John B. “The Strategic Hamlet Program in Kien Hoa Province, South Vietnam: A Case Study of Counter-Insurgency.” In Southeast Asian Tribes, Minorities and Nations. Ed. Kunstadter, Peter. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1967, 703–744.
“Life and Times of a USOM Prov Rep.” In Prelude to Tragedy: Vietnam 1960–1965 Eds. Neese, Harvey and O’Donnell, John. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2001, 210–236.
Olson, James S., and Roberts, Randy. Where the Domino Fell: America in Vietnam, 1945–1990. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1991.
Osborne, Milton E. Strategic Hamlets in South Viet-Nam: A Survey and a Comparison. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 1965.
Packenham, Robert A. Liberal America and the Third World: Political Development Ideas in Foreign Aid and Social Science. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1973.
Parsons, Talcott and Shils, Edward A., eds. Toward a General Theory of Action: Theoretical Foundations for the Social Sciences. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2001.
The Pentagon Papers: The Defense Department History of the United States Decisionmaking on Vietnam. Senator Gravel ed. Vols. 1 and 2. Boston: Beacon Press, 1971–1972.
Pérez, Louis A., Jr. “Dependency.” In Explaining the History of American Foreign Relations. 2nd ed. Eds. Hogan, Michael J. and Paterson, Thomas G.. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004, 162–175.
Phillips, Rufus. “Before We Lost in South Vietnam.” In Prelude to Tragedy: Vietnam, 1960–1965. Eds. Neese, Harvey and O’Donnell, John. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2001, 7–57.
Phillips, Rufus. Why Vietnam Matters: An Eyewitness Account of Lessons Not Learned. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2008.
Pike, Douglas. Viet Cong: The Organization and Techniques of the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1966.
Popkin, Samuel. The Rational Peasant: The Political Economy of Rural Society in Vietnam. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1979.
Porter, Gareth. “Proletariat and Peasantry in Early Vietnamese Communism.” Asian Thought and Society, Vol. 1, No. 3 (December 1976): 335–342.
Prashad, Vijay. The Darker Nations: A People’s History of the Third World. New York: The New Press, 2007.
Prebisch, Raúl. Change and Development – Latin America’s Great Task: Report Submitted to the Inter-American Development Bank. New York: Praeger, 1971.
Prochnau, William. Once Upon a Distant War: David Halberstam, Neil Sheehan, Peter Arnett – Young War Correspondents and Their Early Vietnam Battles. First Vintage Books ed. New York: Vintage, 1996.
Quinn-Judd, Sophie. Ho Chi Minh: The Missing Years, 1919–1941. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2002.
Race, Jeffrey. War Comes to Long An: Revolutionary Conflict in a Vietnamese Province. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1972.
Rostow, W.W. “The Take-Off into Self-Sustained Growth.” The Economic Journal, Vol. 66, No. 261 (March 1956): 25–48.
Rostow, W.W. The Stages of Economic Growth: A Non-Communist Manifesto. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1971.
Rotter, Andrew J. The Path to Vietnam: Origins of the American Commitment to Southeast Asia. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1987.
Rubin, Barry. Paved with Good Intentions: The American Experience and Iran. New York: Oxford University Press, 1980.
Rust, William J., and the editors of U.S. News Books. Kennedy in Vietnam. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1985.
Said, Edward. Orientalism: Western Concepts of the Orient. London: Penguin Books, 1995.
Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr. A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1965.
Schulzinger, Robert. A Time for War: The United States and Vietnam, 1941–1975. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.
Scigliano, Robert. South Vietnam: Nation Under Stress: An Important Look at the Trouble Spot of Asia. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1964.
Scott, James. The Moral Economy of the Peasant. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1976.
Scott, James. Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1998.
Shafer, D. Michael. Deadly Paradigms: The Failure of U.S. Counterinsurgency Policy. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1988.
Shaplen, Robert. The Lost Revolution: The U.S. in Vietnam, 1946–1966. Rev. ed. New York: Harper Colophen, 1966.
Shawcross, William. Sideshow: Kissinger, Nixon and the Destruction of Cambodia. New York: Touchstone, 1981.
Sheehan, Neil. A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam. New York: Random House, 1988.
Shils, Edward. Political Development in the New States. Gravenhage: Mouton & Co., 1962.
Smith, Roger M. “Prince Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia.” Asian Survey, Vol. 7, No. 6 (June 1967): 353–362.
So, Alvin Y. Social Change and Development: Modernization, Dependency and World-System Theories. Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications, 1990.
Spector, Ronald H. Advice and Support: The Early Years of the U.S. Army in Vietnam, 1941–1960. New York: Free Press, 1985.
Statler, Kathryn. “The Diem Experiment: Franco-American Conflict over South Vietnam, July 1954–May 1955.” The Journal of American-East Asian Relations, Vol. 6, Nos. 2–3 (Summer–Fall, 1997): 145–173.
Statler, Kathryn. Replacing France: The Origins of American Intervention in Vietnam. Lexington, KY: The University Press of Kentucky, 2007.
Stewart, Geoffrey C. “Hearts, Minds and Công Dân Vụ: The Special Commissariat for Civic Action and Nation-Building in Ngô Đình Diệm’s Vietnam, 1955–1957.” Journal of Vietnamese Studies, Vol. 6, No. 3 (Fall 2011): 44–100.
Sutton, Francis X. “Nation-Building in the Heyday of the Classic Development Ideology: Ford Foundation Experiences in the 1950s and 1960s.” In Nation-Building: Beyond Afghanistan and Iraq. Ed. Fukuyama, Francis. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006, 42–63.
Tana, Li. “An Alternative Vietnam? The Nguyen Kingdom in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries.” Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, Vol. 29, No. 1 (March 1998): 111–121.
Tana, Li. Nguyễn Cochinchina: Southern Vietnam in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. Ithaca, NY: Southeast Asia Program Publications, Southeast Asia Program, Cornell University, 1998.
Tarling, Nicholas. Nationalism in Southeast Asia: “If the People are with Us.” London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2004.
Taylor, Milton C. “South Viet-Nam: Lavish Aid, Limited Progress.” Pacific Affairs, Vol. 34, No. 3 (August 1961): 242–256.
Thompson, Robert. Defeating Communist Insurgency: The Lessons of Malaya and Vietnam. London: Chatto & Windus, 1967.
Don, Tran Van. Our Endless War: Inside Vietnam. San Rafael, CA: Presidio Press, 1978.
Lam, Truong Buu. Patterns of Vietnamese Response to Foreign Intervention: 1858–1900. New Haven, CT: Southeast Asian Studies, Yale University, 1967.
Tang, Truong Nhu, Chanoff, David, and Toai, Doan Van. A Viet Cong Memoir. New York: Vintage Books, 1985.
Thái, Vũ Văn. “Vietnam’s Concept of Development.” In Problems of Freedom: South Vietnam Since Independence. Ed. Fishel, Wesley R.. New York: Free Press of Glencoe, 1961, 69–73.
Waite, James. The End of the First Indochina War: A Global History. London: Routledge, 2012.
Walinsky, Louis J., ed. Agrarian Reform ad Unfinished Business: The Selected Papers of Wolf Ladejinsky. New York: Oxford University Press, 1977.
Warner, Dennis. The Last Confucian: Vietnam, South-East Asia, and the West. New York: Macmillan, 1963.
Westad, Odd Arne. The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Winters, Francis X. The Year of the Hare: America in Vietnam, January 25, 1963–February 15, 1964. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1997.
Woodruff, Lloyd W. My Thuan: Administrative and Financial Aspects of a Village in South Vietnam. Saigon: Michigan State University Vietnam Advisory Group, 1961.
Woodside, Alexander B. Community and Revolution in Modern Vietnam. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1976.
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