The Great Hanoi Rat Hunt: Empire, Disease, and Modernity in French Colonial Vietnam [1 ed.] 0190602694, 9780190602697

Lục xì: prostitution and venereal disease in colonial Hanoi 9780824834678

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Lục Xì: Prostitution and Venereal Disease in Colonial Hanoi 9780824860615

What does it mean when a city of 180,000 people has more than 5,000 women working as prostitutes? This question frames V

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Post-Mandarin: Masculinity and Aesthetic Modernity in Colonial Vietnam 9780823273164

Post-Mandarin offers an engaging look at a cohort of Vietnamese intellectuals who adopted European fields of knowledge,

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Beyond the Asylum: Mental Illness in French Colonial Vietnam 9781501733949

How each group interacted with the mentally ill, with each other, and sometimes in opposition to each other, helped deci

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Beyond Hanoi: Local Government in Vietnam 9789812305947

This is the first book in English to examine local government and authority in Vietnam since the country’s reunification

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The Caribbean and the Medical Imagination, 1764–1834: Slavery, Disease and Colonial Modernity 9781108241977, 9781108416818

During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the Caribbean was known as the 'grave of Europeans'. At the ap

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Post-Mandarin: masculinity and aesthetic modernity in colonial Vietnam [First edition] 9780823273133, 9780823273140

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The colonial kangaroo hunt 9780522875867, 9780522875850

From the arrival of Captain James Cook in 1770 to classic children's tale Dot and the Kangaroo, Ken Gelder and Rach

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Coral Empire: Underwater Oceans, Colonial Tropics, Visual Modernity 9781478004462

Ann Elias traces the history of two explorers whose photographs and films of tropical reefs in the 1920s cast corals and

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Beyond the Asylum: Mental Illness in French Colonial Vietnam 9781501733956, 9781501733949, 9781501733932

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