The Great Hanoi Rat Hunt : Empire, Disease, and Modernity in French Colonial Vietnam (9780190602697)

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.

Product details

• Format Paperback | 288 pages
• Dimensions 180 x 256 x 19mm | 756g
• Publication date 19 Jul 2018
• Publisher Oxford University Press Inc
• Publication City/Country New York, United States
• Language English
• ISBN10 0190602694
• ISBN13 9780190602697
• Bestsellers rank 27,003

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