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Post mortes on the Wars in Indo-China—A Review Article

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2011

David P. Chandler
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Abstract

A major shortcoming in much Western writing about recent events in Indo-China is that the inhabitants of the region are seen as objects of policy rather than as subjects of history. Focusing in this, way leaves out much of the picture and demeans the inhabitants of Indo-China who are largely responsible, after all, for defeating France and the United States. A number of the books reviewed here take a sympathetic insider's view of U.S. intervention in the region and try to approach the war objectively but still have an American focus. One book is a systematic attack on U.S. behavior in Cambodia since 1970. Finally a recently published collection of documents will be indispensable to students of the war, partly because it pays close attention to Vietnamese as well as American decisions.

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The Journal of Asian Studies , Volume 40 , Issue 1 , November 1980 , pp. 77 - 86
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Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1980

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