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- Book Title
- Quagmire
- Publication Name
- Quagmire : Nation-Building and Nature in the Mekong Delta
- Title
- Quagmire
- Subtitle
- Nation-Building and Nature in the Mekong Delta
- ISBN-10
- 0295991992
- EAN
- 9780295991993
- ISBN
- 9780295991993
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Release Year
- 2012
- Release Date
- 15/03/2012
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.7in
- Item Length
- 9in
- Item Weight
- 15.2 Oz
- Contributor
- William Cronon (Foreword by)
- Genre
- History
- Series
- Weyerhaeuser Environmental Bks.
- Topic
- Society & Culture
- Publication Year
- 2012
- Type
- Textbook
- Item Width
- 6in
- Number of Pages
- 320 Pages
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Winner of the 2012 George Perkins Marsh Prize for Best Book in Environmental HistoryIn the twentieth century, the Mekong Delta has emerged as one of Vietnam's most important economic regions. Its swamps, marshes, creeks, and canals have played a major role in Vietnam's turbulent past, from the struggles of colonialism to the Cold War and the present day. Quagmire considers these struggles, their antecedents, and their legacies through the lens of environmental history.Beginning with the French conquest in the 1860s, colonial reclamation schemes and pacification efforts centered on the development of a dense network of new canals to open land for agriculture. These projects helped precipitate economic and environmental crises in the 1930s, and subsequent struggles after 1945 led to the balkanization of the delta into a patchwork of regions controlled by the Viet Minh, paramilitary religious sects, and the struggling Franco-Vietnamese government. After 1954, new settlements were built with American funds and equipment in a crash program intended to solve continuing economic and environmental problems. Finally, the American military collapse in Vietnam is revealed as not simply a failure of policy makers but also a failure to understand the historical, political, and environmental complexity of the spaces American troops attempted to occupy and control.By exploring the delta as a quagmire in both natural and political terms, Biggs shows how engineered transformations of the Mekong Delta landscape - channelized rivers, a complex canal system, hydropower development, deforestation - have interacted with equally complex transformations in the geopolitics of the region. Quagmire delves beyond common stereotypes to present an intricate, rich history that shows how closely political and ecological issues are intertwined in the human interactions with the water environment in the Mekong Delta.Watch the book trailer: http: //www.youtube.com/user/UWashingtonPress#p/u/2/gp1-UItZqsk
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Publisher
University of Washington Press
ISBN-10
0295991992
ISBN-13
9780295991993
eBay Product ID (ePID)
121197015
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Quagmire : Nation-Building and Nature in the Mekong Delta
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Publication Year
2012
Series
Weyerhaeuser Environmental Bks.
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
320 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Height
0.7in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
15.2 Oz
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Web
Grade from
College Graduate Student
Reviews
". . . Biggs has authored an exciting work that clearly breaks new ground. I have little doubt that the book will be well received by multiple audiences." - Shawn McHale , Asian Studies Review, Vol. 37(2), "An original and innovative approach to the contemporary history of Viet Nam." Environmental History "A path-breaking book that enables us to see, experience, and interpret the delta anew." Journal of Contemporary Asia "This brilliantly researched book explains the part that the environment has played in several colonial schemes in the Mekong Delta and in America's most tragic war there, and how the environmental history of the Mekong Delta has been part of the process of nation-building in Vietnam."-Mart Stewart, Western Washington University "The delta, as natural and as it has been transformed throughout the past two hundred years or so, has played a decisive role in the successes (not many) and the failures (a lot of them) of colonial and post-colonial regimes, of the American war efforts, and of modernization and development. Biggs' focus on the muddied delta and its 'quagmire' characteristics that shaped every economic, agriculture, and political project is among the first of its kind on this subject. He did it quite well."-Thongchai Winichakul, University of Wisconsin-Madison, "Biggs unfolds an environmental history equally rewarding for regional specialists and lifelong residents as well as those for whom the Mekong Delta evokes only memories of war. . . The book makes a significant contribution to development studies and political geography around the role of nature in nation-building projects." - Brian Marks , The Geographical Review, Vol. 102:3, "I learned that it is not a linear development how people use the environment or how the environment affects people; rather it is a dynamic equilibrium between humans and environment, and it is that interaction which shapes nation-building." - Ang Cheng Guan , Journal of American-East Asian Relations, " Quagmire is also an example of the challenges faced when trying to translate ambitions in historical narrative. How to tell a story of such complexity and nuance? . . . I expect [the answer] will come pretty close to the way Biggs has written his story." - Maurits Ertsen , Technology and Culture, "Blending disciplinary perspectives from history, anthropology, and geography, Biggs approaches the Mekong Delta as a landscape--as things on the land, as people, institutions, discourses, artifacts, metaphors, and eco-logics--with a particularly unstable morphology." - Michael Kantor , H-HISTGEOG
Table of Content
Foreword: Nation-Making in the Mekong Mire by William Cronon Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Water's Edge 2. Water Grid 3. Hydroagricultural Crisis 4. Balkanization 5. Modernization 6. American War Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index
Topic
Environmental Science (See Also Chemistry / Environmental), Asia / Southeast Asia, Geopolitics, General, Natural Resources
Lccn
2010-019727
Dewey Decimal
959.7/8
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Nature, Science, History, Political Science
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