Title Rubber and the making of Vietnam : an ecological history, 1897-1975 / Michitake Aso

Published Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2018] ©2018

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations, maps Series Flows, migrations, and exchanges Flows, migrations, and exchanges. Contents Civilizing latex -- Cultivating science -- Managing disease -- Turning tropical -- Maintaining modernity -- Decolonizing plantations -- Militarizing rubber Summary In this ground breaking study, Michitake Aso narrates how rubber plantations came to dominate the material and symbolic landscape of Vietnam and its neighbours, structuring the region's environment of conflict and violence. Aso demonstrates how postcolonial socialist visions of agriculture and medicine were informed by their colonial and capitalist predecessors in important ways Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Rubber plantations -- Vietnam -- History -- 20th century Rubber plantations -- Environmental aspects -- Vietnam Rubber plantations -- Health aspects -- Vietnam BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- General. HISTORY -- Asia -- Southeast Asia. Politics and government Rubber plantations SUBJECT Vietnam -- Politics and government -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh89004607 Subject Vietnam Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781469637167 1469637162 9781469637174 1469637170

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