The great Hanoi rat hunt : empire, disease, and modernity in French colonial Vietnam / Michael G. Vann, Liz Clarke

Englisch

New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2019]

© 2019

XVII, 263 Seiten : Illustrationen, Karten

Includes bibliographical references

1806

Erscheint auch als: Online-Ausgabe- Vann, Michael G., author: Great Hanoi rat hunt. - New York : Oxford University Press, [2018]

978-0-19-060269-7 : pbk.

Weitere Ausgaben: 978-0-19-060270-3 (andere physische Form) : e-book

*Plague -- Vietnam -- Hanoi -- History ; Rats -- Control -- Vietnam -- Hanoi -- History ; Hanoi (Vietnam) -- History ; Vietnam -- History -- 1858-1945 ; Vietnam -- Colonization ; Vietnam -- Civilization -- French influences

Klassifikation der Library of Congress: DS559.93.H36

Dewey Dezimal-Klassifikation: 959.7/3;

"Tells the darkly humorous story of the French colonial state's failed efforts to impose its vision of modernity upon the colonial city of Hanoi, Vietnam. This book offers a case study in the history of imperialism, highlighting the racialized economic inequalities of empire, colonization as a form of modernization, and industrial capitalism's creation of a radical power differential between "the West and the rest." On a deeper level, The Great Hanoi Rat Hunt will engage the contradictions unique to the French Third Republic's colonial "civilizing mission," the development of Vietnamese resistance to French rule, the history of disease, and aspects of environmental history"--

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