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William Cronon has written 39 work(s)
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9780295993003 | Lost Horse Pr, September 1, 2013, cover price $29.95
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9780295994291 | Reprint edition (Univ of Washington Pr, July 9, 2014), cover price $24.95
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9780295992730 | Univ of Washington Pr, July 4, 2013, cover price $50.00
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9780295994338 | Reprint edition (Univ of Washington Pr, July 8, 2014), cover price $24.95
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9780295993515 | Univ of Washington Pr, March 12, 2014, cover price $44.95
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9780295991955 | Univ of Washington Pr, September 13, 2012, cover price $90.00
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9780295993324 | Univ of Washington Pr, July 25, 2013, cover price $24.95
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9780295993294 | Univ of Washington Pr, July 25, 2013, cover price $24.95
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9780295993300 | Univ of Washington Pr, July 25, 2013, cover price $24.95
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9780295992112 | Reprint edition (Univ of Washington Pr, August 10, 2012), cover price $24.95
In the twentieth century, the Mekong Delta has emerged as one of Vietnam's most important economic regions. Its swamps, marshes, creeks, and canals have played a major role in Vietnam's turbulent past, from the struggles of colonialism to the Cold War and the present day. Quagmire considers these struggles, their antecedents, and their legacies through the lens of environmental history.Beginning with the French conquest in the 1860s and continuing to the American military campaigns of the 1960s and 70s, Biggs shows how engineered transformations of the Mekong Delta landscape figured in the evolving geopolitics of this region. Quagmire delves beyond common stereotypes to present an intricate, rich history.David Biggs is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Riverside."No one before Biggs has focused so intensely on the landscapes and waterscapes in which the Vietnam War was fought and their relationship to the complex colonial history of transformation that had been occurring for the century prior to the conflict." -William Cronon"This brilliantly researched book explains the part that the environment has played in several colonial schemes in the Mekong Delta and in America's most tragic war there, and how the environmental history of the Mekong Delta has been part of the process of nation-building in Vietnam." -Mart Stewart, Western Washington University"The delta has played a decisive role in the successes and the failures of colonial and post-colonial regimes, of the American war efforts, and of modernization and development. Biggs's focus on the muddied delta and its 'quagmire' characteristics that shaped every economic, agriculture, and political project is among the first of its kind." -Thongchai Winichakul, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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9780295990675 | Univ of Washington Pr, February 3, 2011, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: In the twentieth century, the Mekong Delta has emerged as one of Vietnam's most important economic regions.
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9780295991993 | Reprint edition (Univ of Washington Pr, April 9, 2012), cover price $25.00
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9780295990835 | Univ of Washington Pr, May 6, 2011, cover price $50.00
Product Description: Post-World War II Oregon was a place of optimism and growth, a spectacular natural region from ocean to high desert that seemingly provided opportunity in abundance. With the passing of time, however, Oregonâs citizens â rural and urban â would find themselves entangled in issues that they had little experience in resolving...read more
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9780295990439 | Univ of Washington Pr, July 1, 2010, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Post-World War II Oregon was a place of optimism and growth, a spectacular natural region from ocean to high desert that seemingly provided opportunity in abundance.
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9780295988818 | Univ of Washington Pr, August 1, 2009, cover price $90.00
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9780295991412 | Reprint edition (Univ of Washington Pr, October 25, 2011), cover price $24.95
Product Description: In the years following World War II, the worldâs biggest dam was almost built in Hells Canyon on the Snake River in Idaho. Karl Boyd Brooks tells the story of the dam controversy, which became a referendum not only on public-power expansion but also on the environmental implications of the New Dealâs natural resources and economic policy...read more
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9780295989129 | Univ of Washington Pr, March 30, 2009, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: In the years following World War II, the worldâs biggest dam was almost built in Hells Canyon on the Snake River in Idaho.
Product Description: In 1896, a small group of prospectors discovered a stunningly rich pocket of gold at the confluence of the Klondike and Yukon rivers, and in the following two years thousands of individuals traveled to the area, hoping to find wealth in a rugged and challenging setting...read more
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9780295983295 | Univ of Washington Pr, October 1, 2003, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: In 1896, a small group of prospectors discovered a stunningly rich pocket of gold at the confluence of the Klondike and Yukon rivers, and in the following two years thousands of individuals traveled to the area, hoping to find wealth in a rugged and challenging setting.
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