Introduction I: The colonial order 1. Material life in the colonial world 2. A colonial polity Patriotism 3. A trance of uncertainty, doubt and fear': Australia and Asia in the Cold War 4. 1954: To the brink II: Preparing for war 5. Ngo Dinh Diem: 'How to revive a war', 1954-1966 6. The logic of intervention: 1957-1964 7. The logics of dissent: 1957-1966 8.
1966: The Cold War mould cracks III: Intervention 9. Counter-revolution and the village: 1966-1969 10. Rice, place and revolution 11. Morbid symptoms: Australia, 1967-1969 12. The left revived IV: Withdrawal 13. The Moratorium 14. Things fall apart 15. Conclusion.