Harvest of Fear: A history of Australia's Vietnam War

Cover
Half Title
Title
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Author\'s note
Illustrations
Introduction
I: The colonial order
	1 Material life in the colonial world
		A sense of place
		The conquest
		The local economy
		The French presence
	2 A colonial polity
		Patriotism, nationalism and communism
		From the Popular Front to the French War
		Decolonisation
	3 Ά trance of uncertainty, doubt and fear\': Australia and Asia in the Cold War
		Glimpses of Asia
		The Cold War
	4 1954: To the brink
		United action
		After the Split
II: Preparing for war
	5 Ngo Dinh Diem: \'How to revive a war\', 1954-1966
		The struggle for control in the South
		The strategic hamlets: The struggle for the village
	6 The logic of intervention: 1957-1964
		The quality of knowledge
		Vietnam in regional strategy
		Threats
		Conscription, 1964
	7 The logics of dissent: 1957-1966
		The peace movement before 1964
		The ALP and foreign policy
		Cairns
	8 1966: The Cold War mould cracks
		The politics of conscience
		A pamphlet war
		\'Better to be right than to be Prime Minister\'
III: Intervention
	9 Counter-revolution and the village: 1966-1969
		\'Counter-revolutionary warfare\'
		Long Phuoc
		Hoa Long
		Suoi Nghe
	10 Rice, place and revolution
		\'Dual power\'
		The shadow economy and \'rice denial\'
		The Τet Offensive
	11 Morbid symptoms: Australia, 1967-1969
		The impact of Tet
		Labor: After the debacle
		Conscription: From conscience to non-compliance
	12 The left revived
		The New Left
		Re-formation
		Images of Vietnam
IV: Withdrawal
	13 The Moratorium
		The Moratorium campaign
		The open coalition
	14 Things fall apart
		The failure of counter-revolution in Phuoc Tuy
		The end of the open coalition
		The death of a foreign policy
Conclusion
Appendix: Opinion polls on the war and conscription
Notes
Bibliography and sources
Index