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Quagmire NationBuilding and Nature in the Mekong Delta ~ Quagmire is a very readable book with a deceivingly simple premise geography and geology matter While Biggs does not delve into much of the colonial world of Vietnam either French or American his focus on water management in the Mekong Delta was the right move
David Biggs Quagmire Nation‐building and Nature in the ~ Throughout this book Biggs explores the history of the southern Mekong Delta by analyzing encounters among what he terms nation builders Vietnamese French and American engineers politicians and mapmakers who brought with them new technologies investment capital and plans the deltas local inhabitants laborers or settlers invested in the new orders or insurgents and peasants opposed to them and the natural environment of the region itself
Quagmire NationBuilding and Nature in the Mekong Delta ~ Quagmire In the twentieth century the Mekong Delta has emerged as one of Vietnams most important economic regions Its swamps marshes creeks and canals have played a major role in Vietnams turbulent past from the struggles of colonialism to the Cold War and the present day
David Biggs Quagmire NationBuilding and Nature in the ~ Quagmire NationBuilding and Nature in the Mekong Delta Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books Series Seattle University of Washington Press 2010 Illustrations xviii 300 pp 3500 cloth ISBN 9780295990675 Reviewed by Michael Kantor Published on HHistGeog August 2013 Commissioned by Robert M Wilson Syracuse University In
Quagmire NationBuilding and Nature in the Mekong Delta ~ Quagmire NationBuilding and Nature in the Mekong Delta Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books In the twentieth century the Mekong Delta has emerged as one of Vietnams most important economic regions
Project MUSE Quagmire NationBuilding and Nature in the ~ One can say many things about David Biggs’s Quagmire NationBuilding and Nature in the Mekong Delta but not that it is without ambitions Examining precolonial colonial and postcolonial interventions of different states and state agents in the Mekong Delta Biggs aims to show how “the activities and politics of nationbuilding were connected to the historically and environmentally complex places where they occurred” p 5
Quagmire ~ 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 NATIONBUILDING AND NATURE IN THE MEKONG DELTA by David Biggs ~ 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
Quagmire nationbuilding and nature in the Mekong Delta ~ Quagmire nationbuilding and nature in the Mekong Delta David A Biggs In the twentieth century the Mekong Delta has emerged as one of Vietnams most important economic regions Its swamps marshes creeks and canals have played a major role in Vietnams turbulent
Quagmire NationBuilding and Nature in the Mekong Delta ~ Quagmire is a very readable book with a deceivingly simple premise geography and geology matter While Biggs does not delve into much of the colonial world of Vietnam either French or American his focus on water management in the Mekong Delta was the right move
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