The great Hanoi rat hunt : empire, disease, and modernity in French colonial Vietman
Michael G. Vann
Bok · Engelsk · 2019
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| Omfang | xvii, 263 pages : : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (colour), portrait ;
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| Opplysninger | Part I: The Graphic History: Prologue ; Chapter One: A Tail of Two Cities ; Chapter Two: Why was Hanoi French? ; Chapter Three: Who Built Hanoi? ; Chapter Four: The Illusion or What Could Possibly Go Wrong? ; Chapter Five: Black Death in the White City! ; Chapter Six: The Great Rat Hunt ; Chapter Seven: The Best Laid Schemes of Rats and Men ; Afterword ; Part II: Primary Sources: Urban Life ; The Third Plague Pandemic ; Voices of Resistance ; Part III: Historical Contexts: The New Imperialism ; The Imperialist Powers ; China ; Colonial Political Economies ; Imperial Ideologies ; The Realities of Colonial Rule ; Western Industrial Capitalism ; The Third Republic ; Vietnamese Resistance: Nationalist, Communist, and Everyday ; The Third Bubonic Plague Pandemic, 1855-1959 ; Part IV: Making of The Rat Hunt ; Part V: Rat Hunt in the Classroom: Discussion Questions ; The Great Rat Hunt ; Colonial History ; Urban History ; Vietnamese History ; History of Medicine and Disease ; China in World History ; Method and Historiography ; Essay Topics ; Timeline of Events in Vietnam, France, and the World ; Further Resources ; Suggested Histories of Vietnam ; French History ; Imperialism ; Disease ; Rats. - 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 consequences.
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| Emner | Plague - History. - Vietnam - Hanoi
Rats - Control - History. - Vietnam - Hanoi tegneserier rotter skadedyrkontroll kolonialisme pest historie |
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| ISBN | 9780190602697 : £12.99
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