Footprints of war : militarized landscapes in Vietnam /

"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 confli...

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Main Author: Biggs, David A. (Author)
Corporate Author: JSTOR (Organization)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2018]
Series:Weyerhaeuser environmental book.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book

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505 0 |a Subterrains -- Terraforming -- Resistance zones -- Ruins -- Creative destruction -- Postwar. 
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