The Cambridge History of the Vietnam War: Volume 1, Origins

Lien-Hang T. Nguyen holds the Dorothy Borg Chair in the History of the United States and East Asia at Columbia University. She is the author of Hanoi's War: An International History of the War for Peace (2012), which won prizes from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations and the Society for Military History. She is the co-founder of Vietnamese Studies at Columbia and serves on the Board of Trustees of Fulbright University Vietnam. Edward Miller is Associate Professor of History and Asian Studies, and Chair of the Department of Asian Societies, Cultures, and Languages at Dartmouth College. He is the author of Misalliance: Ngo Dinh Diem, the United States, and the Fate of South Vietnam (2013) and The Vietnam War: A Documentary Reader (2015). He is the founding director of the Dartmouth Vietnam Project, a student-driven oral history program which documents the memories and experiences of members of the Dartmouth community who lived through the Vietnam War era.

Introduction. Points of departure: the global and local origins of the Vietnam War Edward Miller; Part I. Empires and Nations: 1. Memory, tradition, and the history of 'Vietnam' Liam Kelly; 2. The origins of the Vietnamese revolution Hue-Tam Ho Tai; 3. Hồ Chí Minh and the rise of the Vietnamese Communist Party Pierre Brocheux; 4. Indochina during World War II Eric T. Jennings; 5. The august revolution of 1945 Stein Tønneson; Part II. The First Indochina War: 6. The birth of the democratic republic of Vietnam David Marr; 7. Empire and decolonization in France and Indochina Pierre Grosser; 8. China, the Soviet Union, and the first Indochina War Chen Jian; 9. The first Indochina War in the Central Highlands Oscar Salemink; 10. The first Indochina War in Northern Vietnam and the red river delta Christopher E. Goscha; 11. The battle of Điện Biện Phủ Christopher E. Goscha; Part III. The Two Vietnams: 12. The Geneva Conference of 1954 Martin Thomas; 13. Eisenhower and Vietnam David Anderson; 14. Ngô Đình Diệm and the birth of the Republic of Vietnam Phi Van Nguyen; 15. Nation building in South Vietnam after Geneva Van Nguyen-Marshall; 16. Building socialism in North Vietnam after Geneva Alec Holcombe; 17. North Vietnam's road to war Tuong Vu; 18. Laos between two wars Vatthana Pholsena; 19. The origins of the insurgency in South Vietnam David Elliot; 20. Kennedy and Vietnam Marc Selverstone; 21. The crises of 1963 Edward Miller.