Books written by Marilyn B. Young

  • A Companion to the Vietnam War

    This volume represents the best current scholarship on one of the most controversial and influential episodes in modern American history. It also contains an expanded bibliography of hundreds of secondary sources to guide further research.

  • Making Sense of the Vietnam Wars: Local, National, and Transnational Perspectives

    This volume brings together the work of eleven scholars to examine the conceptual and methodological shifts that have marked the contested terrain of Vietnam War scholarship.

  • Making Sense of the Vietnam Wars: Local, National, and Transnational Perspectives

    The Vietnamese War argues that in some ways the most important political divide in Vietnam was not between ... There is much to be said for the concept of the Third Force as a more “authentic” Vietnamese voice than the official ...

  • Human Rights and Revolutions

    Now in a revised and updated edition with added original chapters, this acclaimed book provides an interdisciplinary perspective on the complex links between revolutionary struggles and human rights discourses and practices.

  • Iraq and the Lessons of Vietnam: Or, How Not to Learn from the Past

    This new book makes clear that something closer to the opposite is true—that US foreign policy makers have learned little from the past, even as they have been obsessed with the “Vietnam Syndrome.” Iraq and the Lessons of Vietnam ...

  • A Companion to the Vietnam War

    This volume represents the best current scholarship on one of the most controversial and influential episodes in modern American history. It also contains an expanded bibliography of hundreds of secondary sources to guide further research.