America's miracle man in Vietnam Ngo Dinh Diem, religion, race, and U.S. intervention in Southeast Asia, 1950-1957
"Colonialism, communism, or Catholicism?" : Mr. Diem goes to Washington -- "Our system demands the supreme being" : America's third great awakening -- "These people aren't complicated" : America's "Asia" at midcentury -- "Christ crucified i...
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| Format: | Elektronisch E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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Duke University Press
2004
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| Schriftenreihe: | American encounters/global interactions
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| Zusammenfassung: | "Colonialism, communism, or Catholicism?" : Mr. Diem goes to Washington -- "Our system demands the supreme being" : America's third great awakening -- "These people aren't complicated" : America's "Asia" at midcentury -- "Christ crucified in Indo-China" : Tom Dooley and the North Vietnamese refugees -- "The sects and the gangs mean to get rid of the saint" : "Lightning Joe" Collins and the battle for Saigon -- "This god-fearing anti-communist" : the Vietnam lobby and the selling of Ngo Dinh Diem |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | x, 381 p ill 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780822386087 0822386089 |