Imperial Intoxication - Alcohol and the Making of Colonial Indochina

Provides a unique window on Indochina between 1860 and 1939. This study illuminates the contradictory mix of modern and archaic, power and impotence, civil bureaucracy and military occupation that characterized colonial rule. It links these long-ago stories to global processes that continue to play out today.

About the author

Gerard Sasges is assistant professor in the Department of Southeast Asian Studies at the National University of Singapore. He is the editor of a collection of interviews from contemporary Vietnam, It's a Living.

Summary

Provides a unique window on Indochina between 1860 and 1939. This study illuminates the contradictory mix of modern and archaic, power and impotence, civil bureaucracy and military occupation that characterized colonial rule. It links these long-ago stories to global processes that continue to play out today.

Product details

• Authors: Gerard Sasges
• Assisted by: David P Chandler (Editor), David P. Chandler (Editor), Rita Smith Kipp (Editor)
• Publisher: University of hawaii press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2017
• EAN: 9780824866884
• ISBN: 978-0-8248-6688-4
• No. of pages: 263
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Southeast Asia: Politics, Mean; Southeast Asia: Politics, Meaning, and Memory; Southeast Asia: Politics, Mean; Southeast Asia: Politics, Meaning and Memory
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches