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Asian Studies / History / Environment

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The Mekong Delta Ecology, Economy, and Revolution, 1860–1960 Pierre Brocheux “A major contribution to Vietnamese studies and to the socio- economic history of Southeast Asia.” —Hy V. Luong, Pacific Affairs Mining a wealth of archival sources in France and Vietnam, Pierre Brocheux constructs a fascinating picture of how French capital and technology transformed the Mekong Delta. By draining the swamps and encouraging a particular pattern of Vietnamese settlement, the French cultivated a volatile society, bound together by lines of credit and poised at the brink of social revolution. From the cutting of the first canals in the 1880s to the eruption of the Viet Cong’s insurgency in the 1950s, this book illuminates the subtle interactions between ecology and social change in a tropical delta. The Mekong Delta is valuable for students of the Vietnamese Revolution and for scholars of peasant movements around the globe. It fills a major gap in our knowledge of the social change that swept the great deltas of Southeast Asia. Pierre Brocheux is professor emeritus of history at Université de Paris VII. His most recent book is Ho Chi Minh: A Biography. Distributed for the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, UW–Madison Media & bookseller inquiries regarding review copies, events, and interviews can be directed to the publicity department at publicity@uwpress.wisc.edu or (608) 263-0734. (If you want to examine a book for possible course use, please see our Course Books page. If you want to examine a book for possible rights licensing, please see Rights & Permissions.)

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