LEADER 04691nam 2200985 a 450 001 9910826371103321 005 20240513185652.0 010 $a0-520-94844-0 010 $a1-283-27764-6 010 $a9786613277640 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520948440 035 $a(CKB)2670000000411960 035 $a(EBL)656352 035 $a(OCoLC)707166267 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000470215 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11331931 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000470215 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10411798 035 $a(PQKB)11524253 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC656352 035 $a(DE-B1597)521107 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520948440 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL656352 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10446268 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL327764 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000411960 100 $a20101008d2011 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||#|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aImperial heights $eDalat and the making and undoing of French Indochina /$fEric T. Jennings 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aBerkeley $cUniversity of California Press$dc2011 215 $a1 online resource (372 p.) 225 1 $aFrom Indochina to Vietnam : revolution and war in a global perspective ;$v4 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-520-26659-5 311 0 $a0-520-27269-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIllustrations --$tForeword by the Series Editors --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction --$t1. Escaping Death in the Tropics --$t2. Murder on the Race for Altitude --$t3. Health, Altitude, and Climate --$t4. Early Dalat, 1898-1918 --$t5. Colonial Expectations, Pastimes, Comestibles, Comforts, and Discomforts --$t6. Situating the "Montagnards" --$t7. A Functional City? Architecture, Planning, Zoning, and Their Critics --$t8. The Dalat Palace Hotel --$t9. Vietnamese Dalat --$t10. Some Colonial Categories: Children, European Women, and Métis --$t11. Divine Dalat --$t12. The Maelstrom, 1940-1945 --$t13. Autonomous Province or Federal Capital? --$t14. Dalat at War and Peace, 1946-1975 --$tEpilogue --$tNotes --$tSelect Bibliography --$tIndex 330 $aIntended as a reminder of Europe for soldiers and clerks of the empire, the city of Dalat, located in the hills of Southern Vietnam, was built by the French in an alpine locale that reminded them of home. This book uncovers the strange 100-year history of a colonial city that was conceived as a center of power and has now become a kitsch tourist destination famed for its colonial villas, flower beds, pristine lakes, and pastoral landscapes. Eric T. Jennings finds that from its very beginning, Dalat embodied the paradoxes of colonialism-it was a city of leisure built on the backs of thousands of coolies, a supposed paragon of hygiene that offered only questionable protection from disease, and a new venture into ethnic relations that ultimately backfired. Jennings' fascinating history opens a new window onto virtually all aspects of French Indochina, from architecture and urban planning to violence, labor, métissage, health and medicine, gender and ethic relations, schooling, religion, comportments, anxieties, and more. 410 0$aFrom Indochina to Vietnam ;$vv. 4. 606 $aHISTORY / General$2bisacsh 607 $a?a? La?t (Vietnam)$xHistory 607 $a?a? La?t (Vietnam)$xColonial influence 607 $aFrance$xColonies$zAsia$xHistory 610 $aasia scholars. 610 $aasian history. 610 $aasian studies. 610 $acolonial historians. 610 $acolonial villas. 610 $acolonialism. 610 $acultural anthropology. 610 $acultural historians. 610 $acultural perspective. 610 $adalat. 610 $aethnic relations. 610 $aethnographers. 610 $aethnography. 610 $aeurope. 610 $afrench empire. 610 $afrench indochina. 610 $agender relations. 610 $ahealth and medicine. 610 $ahistorians. 610 $aimperialism. 610 $anonfiction. 610 $apolitical science. 610 $apostcolonialism. 610 $aregional history. 610 $asouthern vietnam. 610 $atourist destination. 610 $aworld history. 615 7$aHISTORY / General. 676 $a959.7/6 700 $aJennings$b Eric Thomas$0517396 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910826371103321 996 $aImperial heights$94069804 997 $aUNINA