Mark P. Bradley

Associate Professor of International History and the College
Ph.D. Harvard University 1995

FIELD SPECIALTIES

U.S.; International history; Modern Southeast Asia.

BIOGRAPHY

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PUBLICATIONS

Books

Imagining Vietnam and America: The Making of Postcolonial Vietnam, 1919-1950 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000): winner of the 2002 Harry J. Benda Prize given by the Association for Asian Studies.

Truth Claims: Representations and Human Rights, coeditor with Patrice Petro (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2002).

Articles and Essays

"Interchange: Legacies of the Vietnam Wars," Journal of American History 43.2 (September 2006): 452-91.

"The Perils of Personal Redemption: Assessing Errol Morris's The Fog of War, Passport 36.2 (April 2005): 4-6.

"The Imperial and the Postcolonial" in Palgrave Advances in International History, edited by P.Finney (London and New York: Palgrave/Macmillan Press, 2005): 247-266.

"Iraq and Vietnam: Narrow Idealism," Chicago Tribune, 6 June 2004.

"Becoming Van Minh: Civilizational Discourse and Rights Talk in Colonial Vietnam," Journal of World History, 15.1 (March 2004): 65-83.

"Franklin Roosevelt, Trusteeship and U.S. Exceptionalism: Reconsidering American Visions of Postcolonial Vietnam" in The Transformation of Southeast Asia: International Perspectives on Decolonization, edited by Marc Frey, Ronald W. Preussen and Tan Tai Yong (Armonk: M.E. Sharpe, 2003): 197-212 and in A Companion to the Vietnam War, edited by Marilyn B.Young and Robert Buzzanco (New York: Blackwell Publishing, 2002): 130-145.

"Contests of Memory: Remembering and Forgetting War in the Contemporary Vietnamese Cinema" in The Country of Memory: Remaking the Past in Late Socialist Vietnam, edited by HueTam Ho Tai (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001): 196-226.

"Slouching Toward Bethlehem: Culture, Diplomacy and the Origins of the Cold War in Vietnam" in Cold War Constructions: The Political Culture of United States Imperialism, 1945-1966, edited by Christian G. Appy (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2000): 11-34.

"Making Revolutionary Nationalism: Vietnam, America and the August Revolution of 1945," Itinerario 23.1(1999): 23-51.

"Culture, International History and Imperial Democracy" in Rethinking International Relations: Ernest R. May and the Study of World Affairs, edited by Akira Iriye (Chicago: Imprint Publications, 1998): 283-87.

"Imagining America: The United States in Radical Vietnamese Anticolonial Discourse," Journal of AmericanEast Asian Relations 4.4 (Winter 1996): 299-329.

"An Improbable Opportunity: The Truman Administration and the Democratic Republic of Vietnam's 1947 Initiative" in The Vietnam War: Vietnamese and American Perspectives, edited by Jayne Werner and Luu Doan Huynh (New York: M.E. Sharpe, 1993): 3-23.

Vietnamese Archives and Scholarship on the Cold War, Cold War International History Project Working Paper No. 7 (Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 1993).

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