Beschreibung:
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 ixAcknowledgments xiiiAbbreviations and Acronyms xviiIntroduction: History, Tourism, and the Question of Empire 11. Tourism and State Legitimacy in the Republic of Vietnam 152. Educating Private Ryan: Tourism and the United States Military in Postcolonial Vietnam 473. "They Set About Revenging Themselves on the Population": The "Hue Massacre" and the Shaping of Historical Consciousness 874. The New Modernizers: Naturalizing Capitalism in Doi Moi Vietnam 1235. "The Other Side of the War": Memory and Meaning at the War Remnants Museum 151Epilogue: Tourism and the Martial Fascination 183Notes 189References 249Index 271