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Author Aso, Michitake, author.

Title Rubber and the making of Vietnam : an ecological history, 1897-1975 / Michitake Aso
Published Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [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
Vietnam -- Politics and government -- 20th century.
Vietnam
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
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