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Imperial heights : Dalat and the making and undoing of French Indochina /
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 cent...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley, Calif. :
University of California Press,
©2011.
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| Colección: | From Indochina to Vietnam ;
v. 4. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Foreword; 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 Métis; 11. Divine Dalat; 12. The Maelstrom, 1940-1945; 13. Autonomous Province or Federal Capital?
- 14. Dalat at War and Peace, 1946-1975Epilogue; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z