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Imperial heights Dalat and the making and undoing of French Indochina

By Eric Thomas , Jennings

Book information

Publisher
University of California Press
ISBN
9780520266599, 9780520948440, 0520948440
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
4 MB (3849070 bytes)
Series
From Indochina to Vietnam. 4
Pages
352\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
Architecture coloniale--Viet-Nam--Da Lat (Viet-Nam

Description

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Escaping Death in the Tropics 2. Murder on the Race for Altitude 3. Health, Altitude, and Climate 4. Early Dalat, 1898--1918 5. Colonial Expectations, Pastimes, Comestibles, Comforts, and Discomforts 6. Situating the "Montagnards" 7. A Functional City? Architecture, Planning, Zoning, and Their Critics 8. The Dalat Palace Hotel 9. Vietnamese Dalat 10. Some Colonial Categories: Children, European Women, and Metis 11. Divine Dalat 12. The Maelstrom, 1940--1945 13. Autonomous Province or Federal Capital? 14. Dalat at War and Peace, 1946--1975 Epilogue Notes Select Bibliography Index

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