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The perfect war : technowar in Vietnam
- Title
- The perfect war : technowar in Vietnam / by James William Gibson.
- Author
- Gibson, James William.
- Publication
- Boston : Atlantic Monthly Press, ©1986.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | DS557.7 .G53 1986 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- x, 523 pages; 25 cm
- Subject
- Note
- Includes index.
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliography: p. [477]-507.
- Contents
- pt. 1. In search of war: Trailing the beast ; Legacies of resistance : Vietnamese nationalism against the Chinese and French ; The permanent war begins : 1940-1954 ; America come to Vietnam : installing the mechanisms, 1954-1964 -- pt. 2. The green machine: Technowar at ground level : search-and-destroy as assembly line ; The Tet Offensive and the production of a double reality ; Forced draft : urbanization and the consumer society come to Vietnam ; Pacification war in the countryside -- pt. 3. Death from above: Air war over North Vietnam : bombing as communication ; Structural dynamics of escalation in theory and practice, 1966-1967 ; The structure of air operations ; The redistribution of air war : Laos, 1968-1973 ; Closing out the war : Cambodia and North Vietnam, 1969-1973 -- pt. 4. The perfect war: Finding the light at the end of the tunnel ; Surveying the wreckage : the limits of conventional criticism and the reproduction of technowar.
- ISBN
- 0871130637
- 9780871130631
- LCCN
- 86014144
- OCLC
- ocm13793742
- 13793742
- SCSB-1150472
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library