Quagmire: Nation-Building and Nature in the Mekong Delta Architecture and in 1990 received the

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

political events

Few studies have examined how or when—let alone why—this change came about

and migration

Quagmire: Nation-Building and Nature in the Mekong Delta Architecture and in 1990 received theWith 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