Quagmire: Nation-Building and Nature in the Mekong Delta Architecture and how it has been

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and hill tribe communities in the North of Thailand

who saw themselves as Buddhist warriors

University of Tokyo

he was the postdoctoral fellow in the School of Foreign Service

Quagmire: Nation-Building and Nature in the Mekong Delta Architecture and how it has beenWith a foreword by William Cronon In the twentieth century, the Mekong Delta emerged as one of Vietnams most important economic regions. Its swamps, marshes, creeks, and canals played a major role in Vietnams turbulent past, from the struggles of colonialism, to the Cold War, and to the present day. Quagmire considers these struggles, their antecedents, and their legacies from the perspective of environmental history. Beginning with the French