Vietnam Wars in Global History

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Examines Vietnam’s wars in the twentieth century, the first against France (1946-1954), and the second against the United States (1965-1973), from both local and global perspectives. Special attention will be paid to the wars’ origins, conduct, legacies, and historiography, as well as issues of colonialism, ethics and war, human rights, and the human experience of the war mediated by race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, and religion.