Books Details
Author : Michael G. Vann Pages : 288 pages Publisher : Oxford
University Press, USA Language : ISBN-10 : 0190602694 ISBN-13 :
9780190602697
Books Descriptions
The Great Hanoi Rat Hunt: Empire, Disease, and Modernity in
French Colonial Vietnam tells the darkly humorous story of the
French colonial state's failed efforts to impose its vision of
modernity upon the colonial city of Hanoi, Vietnam.Part of the
Graphic Histories series, this book offers a case study in the
history of imperialism, highlighting the racialized economic
inequalities of empire, colonization as a form of
modernization, and industrial capitalism's creation of a
radical power differential between "the West and the rest." On
a deeper level, The Great Hanoi Rat Hunt examines the
contradictions unique to the French Third Republic's colonial
"civilizing mission," the development of Vietnamese resistance
to French rule, and the history of disease. Featuring forty-
nine primary sources--many available in English for the first
time--and three full-color maps, The Great Hanoi Rat Hunt
illustrates the ironic and tragic ways in which modernization
projects can have unintended
