The Mekong Delta: Ecology, Economy, and Revolution, 1860-1960

by Pierre Brocheux

Mining a wealth of archival sources in France and Vietnam, Pierre Brocheux constructs a fascinating picture of how French capital and technology transformed the Mekong Delta. By draining the swamps and encouraging a particular pattern of Vietnamese settlement, the French cultivated a volatile society, bound together by lines of credit and poised at the brink of social revolution. From the cutting of the first canals in the 1880s to the eruption of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1881261131
• ISBN13: 9781881261131
• Release Date: May 2009
• Publisher: Center for Southeast Asian Studies 1
• Length: 290 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"