Harvest Of Fear: A History Of Australia's Vietnam War / Edition 1

by John Murphy

Overview

This book juxtaposes Australian understandings of Vietnam with a description of colonial and postcolonial history that establishes the dynamics of revolutionary warfare in Phuoc Tuy. It evaluates the Australian army's 'counter-revolutionary warfare'strategy developed from Cold War prescriptions.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367159375
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	10/19/2020
Pages:	358
Product dimensions:	5.25(w) x 8.38(h) x (d)

About the Author

John Murphy (Author) :

Table of Contents

Introduction I: The colonial order 1. Material life in the colonial world 2. A colonial polity Patriotism 3. A trance of uncertainty, doubt and fear': Australia and Asia in the Cold War 4. 1954: To the brink II: Preparing for war 5. Ngo Dinh Diem: 'How to revive a war', 1954–1966 6. The logic of intervention: 1957–1964 7. The logics of dissent: 1957–1966 8. 1966: The Cold War mould cracks III: Intervention 9. Counter–revolution and the village: 1966–1969 10. Rice, place and revolution 11. Morbid symptoms: Australia, 1967–1969 12. The left revived IV: Withdrawal 13. The Moratorium 14. Things fall apart 15. Conclusion