Imperial Heights Dalat and the Making and Undoing of French Indochina

Name: Imperial Heights Dalat and the Making and Undoing of French Indochina
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ISBN: 9780520272699

ISBN-10: 0520272692

ISBN-13: 9780520272699

Edition: 2011

Authors: Eric T. Jennings

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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 colonialism--it 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,…

Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 4/8/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 376
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English

Eric T. Jennings, Professor of History at the University of Toronto, is the author ofCuring the Colonizers,andVichy in the Tropics.