Introduction: America's war and the world / Andreas W. Daum, Lloyd C. Gardner, Wilfried Mausbach
PART ONE. RELOCATING VIETNAM: COMPARISONS IN TIME AND SPACE
Colonial war in a postcolonial era: the United States' occupation of Vietnam / Michael Adas
Visions of the Asian periphery: Vietnam (1964-1968) and the Philippines (1898-1900) / Fabian Hilfrich
Challenge of revolutions and the emergence of nation-states: British reactions to the foundation of the United States and American responses to the socialist republic of Vietnam, 1780-1980 / T. Christopher Jespersen
Peripheral war: a recipe for disaster? The United States in Vietnam and Japan in China / John Prados
Panmunjom and Paris armistices: patterns of war termination / Jeffrey Kimball
Versailles and Vietnam: coming to terms with war / Sabine Behrenbeck
PART TWO. INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND THE DYNAMICS OF ALLIANCE POLITICS
Who paid for America's war? Vietnam and the international monetary system, 1960-1975 / Hubert Zimmermann
America isolated: the Western powers and the escalation of the war / Fredrik Logevall
Bamboo in the shadows: relations between the United States and Thailand during the Vietnam War / Arne Kislenko
Strategic concerns of a regional power: Australia's involvement in the Vietnam War / Peter Edwards
People's warfare versus peaceful coexistence: Vietnam and the Sino-Soviet struggle for ideological supremacy / Eva-Maria Stolberg
PART THREE. RECASTING VIETNAM: DOMESTIC SCENES AND DISCOURSES
Center-left government in Italy and the escalation of the Vietnam War / Leopoldo Nuti
Auschwitz and Vietnam: West German protest against America's war during the 1960s / Wilfried Mausbach
World peace council and the antiwar movement in East Germany / Günter Wernike
All power to the imagination! Antiwar activism and emerging feminism in the late 1960s / Barbara L. Tischler
Vietnam: many wars? / Lloyd C. Gardner
