University of Massachusetts Press 2007 Hardcover As New with No dust jacket as issued 1558496084. Still shrinkwrapped; no dust jacket as issued; Culture, Politics, and the Cold War; 0.9 x 9.1 x 6.1 Inches; 280 pages; Beginning where most histories of the Vietnam War end, Invisible Enemies examines the relationship between the United States and Vietnam following the American pullout in 1975. Drawing on a broad range of sources, from White House documents and congressional hearings to comic books and feature films, Edwin Martini shows how the United States continued to wage war on Vietnam "by other means" for another twenty-five years. In addition to imposing an extensive program of economic sanctions, the United States opposed Vietnam's membership in the United Nations, supported the Cambodians, including the Khmer Rouge, in their decade-long war with the Vietnamese, and insisted that Vietnam provide a "full accounting" of American MIAs before diplomatic relations could be established. According to Martini, such policies not only worked against some of the stated goals of U.S. foreign policy, they were also in opposition to the corporate economic interests that ultimately played a key role in normalizing relations between the two nations in the late 1990s. Martini reinforces his assessment of American diplomacy with an analysis of the "cultural front"-the movies, myths, memorials, and other phenomena that supported continuing hostility toward Vietnam while silencing ...

Amherst, MA University of Massachusetts Press 2007 Cloth Fine 1558496084. 8vo.

University of Massachusetts Press 2007 Hard cover New. Glued binding. Paper over boards. 288 p. Culture and Politics in the Cold War and Beyond.

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