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The Universe Unraveling : American Foreign Policy in Cold War Laos.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: The United States in the World SeriesPublisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2012Copyright date: ©2012Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (327 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780801464041
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Universe UnravelingDDC classification:
  • 327.73059409004
LOC classification:
  • E183.8.L3
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. "A Long Country Inhabited by Lotus Eaters" : Washington Encounters Laos -- 2. "A Soft Buffer" : Laos in the Eisenhower Administration's Grand Strategy -- 3. "Help the Seemingly Unhelpable" : "Little America" and the U.S. Aid Program in Laos -- 4. "Foreigners Who Want to Enslave the Country" : American Neocolonialism, Lao Defiance -- 5. "Doctor Tom" and "Mister Pop" : American Icons in Laos -- 6. "Retarded Children" : Laos in the American Popular Imagination -- 7. "No Place to Fight a War" : Washington Backs Away from Laos -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index.
Summary: The Universe Unraveling is a provocative reinterpretation of U.S.-Laos relations in the years leading up to the Vietnam War. U.S. policy toward Laos under Eisenhower and Kennedy cannot be understood apart from the traits Americans ascribed to Lao allies.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. "A Long Country Inhabited by Lotus Eaters" : Washington Encounters Laos -- 2. "A Soft Buffer" : Laos in the Eisenhower Administration's Grand Strategy -- 3. "Help the Seemingly Unhelpable" : "Little America" and the U.S. Aid Program in Laos -- 4. "Foreigners Who Want to Enslave the Country" : American Neocolonialism, Lao Defiance -- 5. "Doctor Tom" and "Mister Pop" : American Icons in Laos -- 6. "Retarded Children" : Laos in the American Popular Imagination -- 7. "No Place to Fight a War" : Washington Backs Away from Laos -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index.

The Universe Unraveling is a provocative reinterpretation of U.S.-Laos relations in the years leading up to the Vietnam War. U.S. policy toward Laos under Eisenhower and Kennedy cannot be understood apart from the traits Americans ascribed to Lao allies.

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