The Great Hanoi Rat Hunt

The Great Hanoi Rat Hunt: Empire, Disease, and Modernity in French Colonial Vietnam tells the darkly humorous story of the French colonial state’s failed efforts to impose its vision of modernity upon the colonial city of Hanoi, Vietnam.nnPart of the strongGraphic Histories series/strong, this book offers a case study in the history of imperialism, highlighting the racialized economic inequalities of empire, colonization as a form of modernization, and industrial capitalism’s creation of a radical power differential between

Additional ISBNs: 9780190602697, 0190602694, 9780190602703, 0190602708