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  • Empire in Waves

    A Political History of Surfing

    by Scott Laderman ...
    Series Book 1 - Sport in World History
    Surfing today evokes many things: thundering waves, warm beaches, bikinis and lifeguards, and carefree pleasure. But is the story of surfing really as simple as popular culture suggests? In this first international political history of the sport, Scott Laderman shows that while wave riding is indeed capable of stimulating tremendous pleasure, its globalization went hand in hand with the blood and ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • Tours of Vietnam

    War, Travel Guides, and Memory

    by Scott Laderman, Emily S. Rosenberg ...
    Series series American Encounters/Global Interactions
    In Tours of Vietnam, Scott Laderman demonstrates how tourist literature has shaped Americans’ understanding of Vietnam and projections of United States power since the mid-twentieth century. Laderman analyzes portrayals of Vietnam’s land, history, culture, economy, and people in travel narratives, U.S. military guides, and tourist guidebooks, pamphlets, and brochures. Whether implying that ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • The "Silent Majority" Speech

    Richard Nixon, the Vietnam War, and the Origins of the New Right

    by Scott Laderman ...
    Series series Critical Moments in American History
    The "Silent Majority" Speech treats Richard Nixon’s address of November 3, 1969, as a lens through which to examine the latter years of the Vietnam War and their significance to U.S. global power and American domestic life.The book uses Nixon’s speech – which introduced the policy of "Vietnamization" and cited the so-called bloodbath theory as a justification for continued U.S. involvement in ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • At War

    The Military and American Culture in the Twentieth Century and Beyond

    by David Kieran, Edwin A. Martini, Sahr Conway-Lanz, Stefan Aune, Nick Witham, Mark R. Wilson, Jennifer Mittelstadt, Christopher Hamner, Wilbur J. Scott0, Jana K. Lipman1, Christine Knauer2, Kara Dixon Vuic3, John M. Kinder4, Richard P. Tucker5, Susan L. Carruthers6, Bonnie M. Miller7, Scott Laderman8, Katherine Ellison9, William Watson0, G. Kurt Piehler1 ...
    Series series War Culture
    The 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 and gendered identities to debates over environmental and immigration policy. Warfare and the ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Imperial Benevolence

    U.S. Foreign Policy and American Popular Culture since 9/11

    Edited by Scott Laderman ...
    This is a necessary and urgent read for anyone concerned about the United States' endless wars. Investigating multiple genres of popular culture alongside contemporary U.S. foreign policy and political economy, Imperial Benevolence shows that American popular culture continuously suppresses awareness of U.S. imperialism while assuming American exceptionalism and innocence. This is despite the fact ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Four Decades On

    Vietnam, the United States, and the Legacies of the Second Indochina War

    Edited by Scott Laderman, Edwin A. Martini, Edwin A. Martini ...
    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 at the war's end—including rebuilding a nation and consolidating a socialist revolution while ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

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  • Dereliction of Duty

    Johnson, McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff

    by H. R. McMaster ...
    "The war in Vietnam was not lost in the field, nor was it lost on the front pages of the New York Times or the college campuses. It was lost in Washington, D.C." —H. R. McMaster (from the Conclusion)Dereliction Of Duty is a stunning analysis of how and why the United States became involved in an all-out and disastrous war in Southeast Asia. Fully and convincingly researched, based on transcripts ... Read more

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  • The Battle of Long Tan

    As featured in The Vietnam Years

    by Michael Caulfield ...
    The truth about the battle that came to define our Vietnam War - from the men who were there.18th August, 1966. 1pm…D Company entered the plantation. They thought that, if they were lucky, they were closing in on perhaps 30 or 40 VC. They were horribly wrong.Over twelve long, bloody and brutal hours, 105 Australian soldiers and three New Zealanders fought off mortar attacks and heavy machine-gun ... Read more

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  • The Indispensable Zinn

    The Essential Writings of the "People's Historian"

    by Howard Zinn, Alice Walker ...
    A "well-chosen anthology of the radical historian's prodigious output," from A People's History of the United States and lesser known sources ( Kirkus Reviews).When Howard Zinn died in early 2010, millions of Americans mourned the loss of one of the nation's foremost intellectual and political guides; a historian, activist, and truth-teller who, in the words of the New York Times's Bob Herbert, ... Read more

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  • Breach of Trust

    How Americans Failed Their Soldiers and Their Country

    by Andrew J. Bacevich ...
    Series series The American Empire Project
    This New York Times bestseller is a blistering critique of the gulf between America's soldiers and the society that sends them off to war.In Breach of Trust, Andrew J. Bacevich takes stock of the separation between Americans and their military, tracing its origins to the Vietnam era and exploring its pernicious implications: a nation with an abiding appetite for war waged at enormous expense by ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • After the Apocalypse

    America's Role in a World Transformed

    by Andrew Bacevich ...
    Series series American Empire Project
    A bold and urgent perspective on how American foreign policy must change in response to the shifting world order of the twenty-first century, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Limits of Power and The Age of Illusions.The purpose of U.S. foreign policy has, at least theoretically, been to keep Americans safe. Yet as we confront a radically changed world, it has become indisputably ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Military Strategy

    by John M. Collins ...
    John M. Collins has distilled the wisdom of historys great military minds to tutor readers on the necessary intellectual skills to win not only battles but also wars. He illuminates practices that worked well or poorly in the past, together with reasons why. He discusses national security interests, strategic building blocks, military strategies across the conflict spectrum, methods for developing ... Read more

    $32.95 USD