Quagmire: Nation-Building and Nature in the Mekong Delta Architecture The Chronicles of the Forty‐Four

The Chronicles of the Forty‐Four Reigns of the Cao Phaendin of Sipsòng Panna

tell how the turmoil gave shape to the nation

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In the Shadow of Angkor marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the defeat of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia

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Quagmire: Nation-Building and Nature in the Mekong Delta Architecture The Chronicles of the Forty‐FourWith 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