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Imperial Heights - Dalat and the Making and Undoing of French Indochina (Paperback)
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Imperial Heights - Dalat and the Making and Undoing of French Indochina (Paperback)
Series: From Indochina to Vietnam: Revolution and War in a Global Perspective, 4
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Intended as a reminder of Europe for soldiers and clerks of the
empire, the city of Dalat, located in the hills of Southern
Vietnam, was built by the French in an alpine locale that reminded
them of home. This book uncovers the strange 100-year history of a
colonial city that was conceived as a center of power and has now
become a kitsch tourist destination famed for its colonial villas,
flower beds, pristine lakes, and pastoral landscapes. Eric T.
Jennings finds that from its very beginning, Dalat embodied the
paradoxes of colonialismOCoit was a city of leisure built on the
backs of thousands of coolies, a supposed paragon of hygiene that
offered only questionable protection from disease, and a new
venture into ethnic relations that ultimately backfired.
JenningsOCO fascinating history opens a new window onto virtually
all aspects of French Indochina, from architecture and urban
planning to violence, labor, m(r)tissage, health and medicine,
gender and ethic relations, schooling, religion, comportments,
anxieties, and more."
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