{"product_id":"tours-of-vietnam-9780822344148","title":"Tours of Vietnam","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eTours of Vietnam\u003c\/i\u003e, Scott Laderman demonstrates how tourist literature has shaped Americans’ understanding of Vietnam and projections of United States power since the mid-twentieth century. Laderman analyzes portrayals of Vietnam’s land, history, culture, economy, and people in travel narratives, U.S. military guides, and tourist guidebooks, pamphlets, and brochures. Whether implying that Vietnamese women were in need of saving by “manly” American military power or celebrating the neoliberal reforms Vietnam implemented in the 1980s, ostensibly neutral guides have repeatedly represented events, particularly those related to the Vietnam War, in ways that favor the global ambitions of the United States.\u003cp\u003eTracing a history of ideological assertions embedded in travel discourse, Laderman analyzes the use of tourism in the Republic of Vietnam as a form of Cold War cultural diplomacy by a fledgling state that, according to one pamphlet published by th\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“. . .\u003ci\u003eTours of Vietnam\u003c\/i\u003e makes a powerful intervention into the on-going scholarly reassessment of the Vietnam wars and their memories along with providing new insight into the ways in which the practices of tourism and the employment of American power did, and do, go hand-in-hand.” - Mark Philip Bradley, \u003ci\u003eH-Diplo Roundtable Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Laderman succeeds in connecting the strands of diplomatic and public history in an elegantly written, approachable work.” - Kristin L. Ahlberg, \u003ci\u003eThe Public Historian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eTours of Vietnam\u003c\/i\u003e is a book that overflows with good and useful questions.” - Peter Siegenthaler, \u003ci\u003ePacific Historical Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“With its extensive analysis of historical and contemporary tourism discourses and practices, this text will be of interest to a broad and interdisciplinary readership that is also concerned with the enduring exercise of US power. Laderman’s work can be situated in a longer tradition of scholarship on US memory of the ‘Vietnam War,’ though it notably ventures to the ‘other side’ to also examine Vietnamese practices of memory. . . . \u003ci\u003eTours of Vietnam\u003c\/i\u003e is a powerful text and an unsettling reminder of how the entanglements of war, empire, and tourism continue to inform US-Vietnamese relations today.” - Christina Schwenkel, \u003ci\u003eJournal of Tourism History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eTours of Vietnam\u003c\/i\u003e is a valuable addition to the scholarship on the larger questions around the US foreign policy and the unexpectedly substantial role that presumably apolitical cultural products play in shaping national memory and global imaginations.”\u003cbr\u003e - Lana Lin,\u003ci\u003e Left History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[T]his is an excellent revisionist interpretation of Western involvement in Southeast Asia that belongs in all library collections. Highly recommended.” - D. R. Jamieson, \u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“In this rich and nuanced work, Scott Laderman shows us how tourism and the making of empire have been inextricably linked during and after the American war in Vietnam. Whether exploring the curious efforts of the former South Vietnamese state and the American military to promote tourism as the war unfolded or interrogating how that ubiquitous traveling bible of the backpack set, the Lonely Planet guide, obscures more than it reveals about the Vietnamese past and present, \u003ci\u003eTours of Vietnam\u003c\/i\u003e offers a powerful model for writing a new transnational history of the United States and its engagement in the wider world.”—\u003cb\u003eMark Bradley\u003c\/b\u003e, University of Chicago\u003cbr\u003e“Not a rehash of old arguments, \u003ci\u003eTours of Vietnam\u003c\/i\u003e is a stunningly original and truly twenty-first-century exploration of America’s war in Vietnam. Combining vast research, profound insights, and lucid prose, Scott Laderman gives us a multilayered, nuanced, and brilliant vision of interrelations among history, memory, foreign policy, and culture.”—\u003cb\u003eH. Bruce Franklin\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eWar Stars: The Superweapon and the American Imagination\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eTours of Vietnam\u003c\/i\u003e makes a powerful intervention into the on-going scholarly reassessment of the Vietnam wars and their memories along with providing new insight into the ways in which the practices of tourism and the employment of American power did, and do, go hand-in-hand.” -- Mark Philip Bradley * H-Diplo Roundtable Reviews *\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eTours of Vietnam\u003c\/i\u003e is a book that overflows with good and useful questions.” -- Peter Siegenthaler * Pacific Historical Review *\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eTours of Vietnam\u003c\/i\u003e is a valuable addition to the scholarship on the larger questions around the US foreign policy and the unexpectedly substantial role that presumably apolitical cultural products play in shaping national memory and global imaginations.”\u003cbr\u003e -- Lana Lin * Left History *\u003cbr\u003e“[T]his is an excellent revisionist interpretation of Western involvement in Southeast Asia that belongs in all library collections. Highly recommended.” -- D. R. Jamieson * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e“Laderman succeeds in connecting the strands of diplomatic and public history in an elegantly written, approachable work.” -- Kristin L. Ahlberg * The Public Historian *\u003cbr\u003e“With its extensive analysis of historical and contemporary tourism discourses and practices, this text will be of interest to a broad and interdisciplinary readership that is also concerned with the enduring exercise of US power. Laderman’s work can be situated in a longer tradition of scholarship on US memory of the ‘Vietnam War,’ though it notably ventures to the ‘other side’ to also examine Vietnamese practices of memory. . . . \u003ci\u003eTours of Vietnam\u003c\/i\u003e is a powerful text and an unsettling reminder of how the entanglements of war, empire, and tourism continue to inform US-Vietnamese relations today.” -- Christina Schwenkel * Journal of Tourism History *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrefatory Note: The Nomenclature of the Vietnam War ix\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments xiii\u003cbr\u003e Abbreviations and Acronyms xvii\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: History, Tourism, and the Question of Empire 1\u003cbr\u003e 1. Tourism and State Legitimacy in the Republic of Vietnam 15\u003cbr\u003e 2. Educating Private Ryan: Tourism and the United States Military in Postcolonial Vietnam 47\u003cbr\u003e 3. \"They Set About Revenging Themselves on the Population\": The \"Hue Massacre\" and the Shaping of Historical Consciousness 87\u003cbr\u003e 4. The New Modernizers: Naturalizing Capitalism in \u003ci\u003eDoi Moi\u003c\/i\u003e Vietnam 123\u003cbr\u003e 5. \"The Other Side of the War\": Memory and Meaning at the War Remnants Museum 151\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue: Tourism and the Martial Fascination 183\u003cbr\u003e Notes 189\u003cbr\u003e References 249\u003cbr\u003e Index 271\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406054957399,"sku":"9780822344148","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822344148.jpg?v=1730494379","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/tours-of-vietnam-9780822344148","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}