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Book France and  Indochina

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kathryn Robson
  • Publisher : Lexington Books
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN : 9780739108406
  • Pages : 260 pages

Download or read book France and Indochina written by Kathryn Robson and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the intersection of literary, cultural, and postcolonial studies, this volume looks at French perceptions of "Indochina" as they are conveyed through a variety of media including cinema, literature, art, and historical or anthropological writings. The volume is long awaited, as France's memory of "Indochina" is understudied compared to its relationship with its former colonies in West and North Africa. The book has contemporary urgency as the makeup of France's immigrant population changes and grows to include Vietnamese, Cambodian, and Laotioan populations.

Book Curing the Colonizers

    Book Details:
  • Author : Eric T. Jennings
  • Publisher : Duke University Press
  • Release : 2006-10-25
  • ISBN : 0822388278
  • Pages : 285 pages

Download or read book Curing the Colonizers written by Eric T. Jennings and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2006-10-25 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Beware! Against the poison that is Africa, there is but one antidote: Vichy.” So ran a 1924 advertisement for one of France’s main spas. Throughout the French empire, spas featuring water cures, often combined with “climatic” cures, thrived during the nineteenth century and the twentieth. Water cures and high-altitude resorts were widely believed to serve vital therapeutic and even prophylactic functions against tropical disease and the tropics themselves. The Ministry of the Colonies published bulletins accrediting a host of spas thought to be effective against tropical ailments ranging from malaria to yellow fever; specialized guidebooks dispensed advice on the best spas for “colonial ills.” Administrators were granted regular furloughs to “take the waters” back home in France. In the colonies, spas assuaged homesickness by creating oases of France abroad. Colonizers frequented spas to maintain their strength, preserve their French identity, and cultivate their difference from the colonized. Combining the histories of empire, leisure, tourism, culture, and medicine, Eric T. Jennings sheds new light on the workings of empire by examining the rationale and practice of French colonial hydrotherapy between 1830 and 1962. He traces colonial acclimatization theory and the development of a “science” of hydrotherapy appropriate to colonial spaces, and he chronicles and compares the histories of spas in several French colonies—Guadeloupe, Madagascar, Tunisia, and Réunion—and in France itself. Throughout Curing the Colonizers, Jennings illuminates the relationship between indigenous and French colonial therapeutic knowledge as well as the ultimate failure of the spas to make colonialism physically or morally safe for the French.

Book Of Vietnam

    Book Details:
  • Author : J. Winston
  • Publisher : Springer
  • Release : 2001-12-06
  • ISBN : 0230107419
  • Pages : 265 pages

Download or read book Of Vietnam written by J. Winston and published by Springer. This book was released on 2001-12-06 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rich space of criticism and document, Of Vietnam moves contemporary figurings of Vietnam out of the nostalgic enclaves of the past and the stagnant places of a mythological present into the rich potential of our historical epoch. This provocative book is the first to bring together works by photographers, established and unpublished writers, poets, and artists from Vietnam and its diasporas, and critical pieces by scholars of anthropology, art history, history, and literary and cultural studies. Focusing on issues of identity, displacement, language, sexuality, and class, their contributions challenge and encourage readers to experience the multiplicity of experiences that make up the fabric of identity.

Book Beyond the Asylum

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  • Author : Claire E. Edington
  • Publisher : Cornell University Press
  • Release : 2019-04-15
  • ISBN : 150173394X
  • Pages : 310 pages

Download or read book Beyond the Asylum written by Claire E. Edington and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-15 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Claire Edington's fascinating look at psychiatric care in French colonial Vietnam challenges our notion of the colonial asylum as a closed setting, run by experts with unchallenged authority, from which patients rarely left. She shows instead a society in which Vietnamese communities and families actively participated in psychiatric decision-making in ways that strengthened the power of the colonial state, even as they also forced French experts to engage with local understandings of, and practices around, insanity. Beyond the Asylum reveals how psychiatrists, colonial authorities, and the Vietnamese public debated both what it meant to be abnormal, as well as normal enough to return to social life, throughout the early twentieth century. Straddling the fields of colonial history, Southeast Asian studies and the history of medicine, Beyond the Asylum shifts our perspective from the institution itself to its relationship with the world beyond its walls. This world included not only psychiatrists and their patients, but also prosecutors and parents, neighbors and spirit mediums, as well as the police and local press. How each group interacted with the mentally ill, with each other, and sometimes in opposition to each other, helped decide the fate of those both in and outside the colonial asylum.

Book History of Soybeans and Soyfoods in China and Taiwan  and in Chinese Cookbooks  Restaurants  and Chinese Work with Soyfoods Outside China  1024 BCE to 2014

Download or read book History of Soybeans and Soyfoods in China and Taiwan and in Chinese Cookbooks Restaurants and Chinese Work with Soyfoods Outside China 1024 BCE to 2014 written by William Shurtleff and published by Soyinfo Center. This book was released on 2014-06-22 with total page 3015 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world's most comprehensive, well documented, and well illustrated book on this subject. With extensive index. 372 photographs and illustrations. Free of charge in digital format on Google Books.

Book Empire and Culture

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  • Author : M. Evans
  • Publisher : Springer
  • Release : 2004-07-30
  • ISBN : 0230000681
  • Pages : 217 pages

Download or read book Empire and Culture written by M. Evans and published by Springer. This book was released on 2004-07-30 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By 1931, the time of the huge Colonial Exhibition in Paris, France had the second largest empire in the world extending to the four corners of the globe. Yet, intriguingly the multi-various impact of the empire upon French culture and society has been largely ignored by historians. This volume aims to redress this balance and will explore how the idea of empire was expressed in film, photography, painting and monuments. It analyzes how the image of the universal, civilising mission saturated French society during the first half of the Twentieth century. In particular it examines how the subject peoples of the empire were represented in art and fiction. In this way the volume underlines that there was not just one single image of empire but many ranging from the extreme right to the extreme left. It contains an in-depth consideration not just of the triumphalist images of empire but the oppositional ones, most notably the surrealists, which directly challenged the emergent colonial consensus.

Book Imperial Heights

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  • Author : Eric T. Jennings
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2011-04-08
  • ISBN : 0520266595
  • Pages : 376 pages

Download or read book Imperial Heights written by Eric T. Jennings and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2011-04-08 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “By using both macro and micro lenses, Eric T. Jennings has written a book which is a model of global history under the guise of a monographic study. He convincingly demonstrates that throughout fifty years, Dalat as a climatic resort built by the French colonizers in the Central Highlands of Vietnam, was upgraded to far more than a mere R&R place for white people. Jennings has kneaded together a huge and rich amount of primary and secondary sources that he masters perfectly due to his sound and balanced method of critical analysis. As we say in French: de la belle ouvrage.” —Pierre Brocheux, author of Indochina: An Ambiguous Colonization, 1858-1954 “Written in a vivid and engaging style, Imperial Heights is an exceptional piece of scholarship. It is impeccably researched, drawing on private, institutional, and national archives in at least five countries. Making wonderful use of ‘thick description,’ Jennings brilliantly recreates the story of one small town to capture the varied and complex history of French colonialism and its afterlives in Southeast Asia.” —J.P. Daughton, author of An Empire Divided

Book French Colonial History

Download or read book French Colonial History written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book History of Soybeans and Soyfoods in Southeast Asia  13th Century To 2010

Download or read book History of Soybeans and Soyfoods in Southeast Asia 13th Century To 2010 written by William Shurtleff, Akiko Aoyagi and published by Soyinfo Center. This book was released on 2010-06 with total page 1031 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar (formerly Burma), Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Vietnam.

Book The Rise and Fall of Modern Empires  Volume I

Download or read book The Rise and Fall of Modern Empires Volume I written by Owen White and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 1080 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection brings together twenty-one articles that explore the diverse impact of modern empires on societies around the world since 1800. Colonial expansion changed the lives of colonised peoples in multiple ways relating to work, the environment, law, health and religion. Yet empire-builders were never working with a blank slate: colonial rule involved not just coercion but also forms of cooperation with elements of local society, while the schemes of the colonisers often led to unexpected outcomes. Covering not only western European nations but also the Ottomans, Russians and Japanese, whose empires are less frequently addressed in collections, this volume provides insight into a crucial aspect of modern world history.

Book Proceedings of the     Annual Meeting of the Western Society for French History

Download or read book Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Western Society for French History written by Western Society for French History and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book History of Soybeans and Soyfoods in China  in Chinese Cookbooks and Restaurants  and in Chinese Work with Soyfoods Outside China  Including Taiwan  Manchuria  Hong Kong   Tibet   1949 2022

Download or read book History of Soybeans and Soyfoods in China in Chinese Cookbooks and Restaurants and in Chinese Work with Soyfoods Outside China Including Taiwan Manchuria Hong Kong Tibet 1949 2022 written by William Shurtleff; Akiko Aoyagi and published by Soyinfo Center. This book was released on 2022-01-11 with total page 1569 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world's most comprehensive, well documented, and well illustrated book on this subject. With extensive subject and geographic index. 231 photographs and illustrations - mostly color. Free of charge in digital PDF format.

Book Alcohol Flows Across Cultures

Download or read book Alcohol Flows Across Cultures written by Waltraud Ernst and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book maps changing patterns of drinking. Emphasis is laid on the connected histories of different regions and populations across the globe regarding consumption patterns, government policies, economics and representations of alcohol and drinking. Its transnational perspective facilitates an understanding of the local and global factors that have had a bearing on alcohol consumption and legislation, especially on the emergence of particular styles of ‘drinking cultures’. The comparative approach helps to identify similarities, differences and crossovers between particular regions and pinpoint the parameters that shape alcohol consumption, policies, legal and illegal production, and popular perceptions. With a wide geographic range, the book explores plural drinking cultures within any one region, their association with specific social groups, and their continuities and changes in the wake of wider global, colonial and postcolonial economic, political and social constraints and exchanges.

Book History of Tofu and Tofu Products  965 CE to 2013

Download or read book History of Tofu and Tofu Products 965 CE to 2013 written by William Shurtleff and published by Soyinfo Center. This book was released on 2013-05 with total page 4016 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Contraband  Capital  and the Colonial State

Download or read book Contraband Capital and the Colonial State written by Gerard Henry Sasges and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Commodity Communities

    Book Details:
  • Author : Nancy Young Reynolds
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2003
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 682 pages

Download or read book Commodity Communities written by Nancy Young Reynolds and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: