Quagmire: Nation-Building and Nature in the Mekong Delta Architecture วรรณะ มหากิตติคุณ และ ประนุท ตันไพบูลย์

วรรณะ มหากิตติคุณ และ ประนุท ตันไพบูลย์

Few studies have examined how or when—let alone why—this change came about

and migration

respect for age

Quagmire: Nation-Building and Nature in the Mekong Delta Architecture วรรณะ มหากิตติคุณ และ ประนุท ตันไพบูลย์With a foreword by William Cronon In the twentieth century, the Mekong Delta emerged as one of Vietnams most important economic regions. Its swamps, marshes, creeks, and canals played a major role in Vietnams turbulent past, from the struggles of colonialism, to the Cold War, and to the present day. Quagmire considers these struggles, their antecedents, and their legacies from the perspective of environmental history. Beginning with the French