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Footprints of War Militarized Landscapes in Vietnam / David Biggs.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Biggs, David A., author.
- Series:
- Weyerhaeuser Environmental Bks.
- Weyerhaeuser environmental books
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Environmental aspects--Vietnam, Central.
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975.
- Indochinese War, 1946-1954--Environmental aspects--Vietnam, Central.
- Indochinese War, 1946-1954.
- War--Environmental aspects--Vietnam, Central.
- War.
- Vietnam, Central--Environmental conditions.
- Vietnam, Central.
- Vietnam, Central--History, Military--20th century.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- University of Washington Press 2018
- Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2018]
- Language Note:
- English
- Biography/History:
- Biggs David Andrew : David Biggs is an associate professor of history at the University of California, Riverside, specializing in Southeast Asia, Vietnam, environmental history, and historical geography. His first book, Quagmire: Nation-Building and Nature in the Mekong Delta (University of Washington Press, 2011), won the George Perkins Marsh Award in 2012 for the best book in environmental history.Sutter Paul S. : Paul Sutter is series editor for the Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books series. He is professor of history at the University of Colorado Boulder. He has published five books, including Driven Wild: How the Fight against Automobiles Launched the Modern Wilderness Movement (University of Washington Press, 2005) and Let Us Now Praise Famous Gullies: Providence Canyon and the Soils of the South (University of Georgia Press, 2015).Sutter Paul S. : Paul Sutter is series editor for the Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books series. He is professor of history at the University of Colorado Boulder. He has published five books, including Driven Wild: How the Fight against Automobiles Launched the Modern Wilderness Movement (University of Washington Press, 2005) and Let Us Now Praise Famous Gullies: Providence Canyon and the Soils of the South (University of Georgia Press, 2015).David Biggs is professor of history at the University of California, Riverside. He is author of Quagmire: Nation-Building and Nature in the Mekong Delta, which won the George Perkins Marsh Prize for the best book in environmental history.
- Summary:
- "Weaving together environmental and social history, David Biggs offers an innovative history of the impact of war on central Vietnam in the long twentieth century, from the imposition of French colonial rule in 1885 to the end of American military involvement in 1973. The long history of conflict around the city of Huế produced belts of degraded lands and village societies deeply marred by the demands of war or periods of conflict. Once military units occupy a space, they change it in physical, legal, and cultural terms so that even long after the troopers leave, their footprints continue to shape patterns of land use and local memories of place. There are tombs, cemeteries, and war monuments; and there are the spaces in between, the subterrains of "wilderness" haunted by ghostlike presences of suspected chemical or munitions hazards. Digging below the surface, one risks being maimed by unexploded ordnance, getting ill from toxic chemical residues, or perhaps worst of all, being haunted by the ghosts of war dead who died violently or did not receive proper burials. Critical to this study are previously little used archives of maps and images created by technologies developed at the same time as the Indochinese wars, 1945 to 1975: aerial photography, high-altitude photography, satellite photography, and satellite-based, multi-band scanning. In this richly illustrated book, author David Biggs uses these new kinds of imagery to reveal the impact of war in the land"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Subterrains
- Terraforming
- Resistance zones
- Ruins
- Creative destruction
- Postwar.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-295-74387-5
- OCLC:
- 1022075264
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