Uses U.S. travel narratives and tourist guidebooks as a window into U.S.-Vietnam relations and to make the case that these provide insight into historical interpretations, memory, and cultural understandings, especially of the Vietnam War.
Uses U.S. travel narratives and tourist guidebooks as a window into U.S.-Vietnam relations and to make the case that these provide insight into historical interpretations, memory, and cultural understandings, especially of the Vietnam War.
Prefatory Note: The Nomenclature of the Vietnam War ix Acknowledgments xiii Abbreviations and Acronyms xvii Introduction: History, Tourism, and the Question of Empire 1 1. Tourism and State Legitimacy in the Republic of Vietnam 15 2. Educating Private Ryan: Tourism and the United States Military in Postcolonial Vietnam 47 3. "They Set About Revenging Themselves on the Population": The "Hue Massacre" and the Shaping of Historical Consciousness 87 4. The New Modernizers: Naturalizing Capitalism in Doi Moi Vietnam 123 5. "The Other Side of the War": Memory and Meaning at the War Remnants Museum 151 Epilogue: Tourism and the Martial Fascination 183 Notes 189 References 249 Index 271
Prefatory Note: The Nomenclature of the Vietnam War ix Acknowledgments xiii Abbreviations and Acronyms xvii Introduction: History, Tourism, and the Question of Empire 1 1. Tourism and State Legitimacy in the Republic of Vietnam 15 2. Educating Private Ryan: Tourism and the United States Military in Postcolonial Vietnam 47 3. "They Set About Revenging Themselves on the Population": The "Hue Massacre" and the Shaping of Historical Consciousness 87 4. The New Modernizers: Naturalizing Capitalism in Doi Moi Vietnam 123 5. "The Other Side of the War": Memory and Meaning at the War Remnants Museum 151 Epilogue: Tourism and the Martial Fascination 183 Notes 189 References 249 Index 271
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