Quagmire: Nation-Building and Nature in the Mekong Delta Architecture and beyond

and beyond

The atlas provides an image of the country at a key moment in its development

วรรณะ มหากิตติคุณ และ ประนุท ตันไพบูลย์

The disciplinary backgrounds of the authors range across history

The editors draw on evidence presented in the book to argue that the politics of decentralization is best understood as the terrain of negotiation and conflict

Quagmire: Nation-Building and Nature in the Mekong Delta Architecture and beyondWith 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