Quagmire: Nation-Building and Nature in the Mekong Delta

by David Biggs and David Andrew Biggs

Book Overview

Winner of the 2012 George Perkins Marsh Prize for Best Book in Environmental History

In the twentieth century, the Mekong Delta has emerged as one of Vietnam's most important economic regions. Its swamps, marshes, creeks, and canals have played a major role in Vietnam's turbulent past, from the struggles of colonialism to the Cold War and the present day. Quagmire considers these struggles, their antecedents, and their legacies through...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295990678
• ISBN13: 9780295990675
• Release Date: February 2011
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.1"