Research Catalog

Title

Footprints of war : militarized landscapes in Vietnam / David Biggs.

Author

Biggs, David A.

Publication

Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2018]

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Details

Additional Authors

Sutter, Paul

Description

xix, 250 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color); 24 cm.

Summary

"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 conflict around the city of Huê ́produced belts of degraded lands and village societies deeply marred by the demands of war or periods of conflict. Once military units occupy a space, they change it in physical, legal, and cultural terms so that even long after the troopers leave, their footprints continue to shape patterns of land use and local memories of place. There are tombs, cemeteries, and war monuments; and there are the spaces in between, the subterrains of "wilderness" haunted by ghostlike presences of suspected chemical or munitions hazards. Digging below the surface, one risks being maimed by unexploded ordnance, getting ill from toxic chemical residues, or perhaps worst of all, being haunted by the ghosts of war dead who died violently or did not receive proper burials. Critical to this study are previously little used archives of maps and images created by technologies developed at the same time as the Indochinese wars, 1945 to 1975: aerial photography, high-altitude photography, satellite photography, and satellite-based, multi-band scanning. In this richly illustrated book, author David Biggs uses these new kinds of imagery to reveal the impact of war in the land"--

Series Statement

Weyerhaeuser environmental books

Uniform Title

Weyerhaeuser environmental book.

Subjects

• War > Environmental aspects
• Vietnam > Vietnam, Central
• War > Environmental aspects > Vietnam, Central
• Ecology
• Vietnam War (1961-1975)
• Indochinese War, 1946-1954 > Environmental aspects > Vietnam, Central
• Military history
• Indochinese War (1946-1954)
• 1900-1999
• Vietnam, Central > Environmental conditions
• Vietnam, Central > History, Military > 20th century
• Vietnam War, 1961-1975 > Environmental aspects > Vietnam, Central

Genre/Form

Military history.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-244) and index.

Contents

Foreword : war is in the land / by Paul S. Sutter -- Introduction -- Subterrains -- Terraforming -- Resistance -- Ruins -- Creative destruction -- Postwar.

Call Number

JFE 19-2995

ISBN

• 9780295743868
• 0295743867
• 9780295743875 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

• 2018003967
• 40028762607

OCLC

1022084500

Author

Biggs, David A., author.

Title

Footprints of war : militarized landscapes in Vietnam / David Biggs.

Publisher

Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2018]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Weyerhaeuser environmental books

Weyerhaeuser environmental book.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-244) and index.

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Added Author

Sutter, Paul, writer of foreword.

Other Form:

Online version: Biggs, David A. Footprints of war. Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2018] 9780295743875 (DLC) 2018004835

Other Standard Identifier

40028762607

Research Call Number

JFE 19-2995