Mark Atwood Lawrence
Auteur de The Vietnam War: A Concise International History (Very Short Introductions)
A propos de l'auteur
Mark Atwood Lawrence is Associate Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of Assuming the Burden: Europe and the American Commitment to War in Vietnam, which won the 2006 George Louis Beer Prize and Paul Birdsall Prize of the American Historical Association. He afficher plus is also the coeditor of The First Vietnam War: Colonial Conflict and Cold War Crisis and the editor of The New York Times Twentieth Century in Review: The Vietnam War. afficher moins
Œuvres de Mark Atwood Lawrence
Nation-States and the Global Environment: New Approaches to International Environmental History (2013) — Directeur de publication — 5 exemplaires
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What I especially liked was the frequency with which Lawrence provided summary syntheses. There were several instances when, after several pages detailing various interests, tensions, and events, I would find myself trying to synthesize it all—and then, bam! Within a page there would be a paragraph that did exactly that.
What it is not, is a tactical or strategic military history of the war. Military operations are discussed only as they relate to the political context. War crimes are acknowledged but not really treated; the non-combat operations of both sides in South Vietnam aren't described in much detail and the main point of such description as there is, is that being a South Vietnamese peasant pretty much sucked regardless of which side had local control.… (plus d'informations)