"Tells the darkly humorous story of the French colonial state's failed efforts to impose its vision of moderni
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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 offers an engaging look at a cohort of Vietnamese intellectuals who adopted European fields of knowledge,
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This is the first book in English to examine local government and authority in Vietnam since the country’s reunification
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How each group interacted with the mentally ill, with each other, and sometimes in opposition to each other, helped deci
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Building the Devil’s Empire is the first comprehensive history of New Orleans’s early years, tracing the town’s developm
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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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Conceived as both a vehicle to national prestige and as a civilizing mission, the second French colonial empire (1830–19
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