Quagmire: Nation-Building and Nature in the Mekong Delta Architecture In the Shadow of Angkor

In the Shadow of Angkor marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the defeat of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia

วรรณะ มหากิตติคุณ และ ประนุท ตันไพบูลย์

former Dean of Forestry

and in 1990 received the Thai Reporters’ Association’s first-ever Environmental Reporter of the Year Award

and migration

Quagmire: Nation-Building and Nature in the Mekong Delta Architecture In the Shadow of AngkorWith a foreword by William Cronon In the twentieth century, the Mekong Delta emerged as one of Vietnams most important economic regions. Its swamps, marshes, creeks, and canals played a major role in Vietnams turbulent past, from the struggles of colonialism, to the Cold War, and to the present day. Quagmire considers these struggles, their antecedents, and their legacies from the perspective of environmental history. Beginning with the French