IMPERIAL INTOXICATION: Alcohol and the Making of Colonial Indochina

摘要

Based on extensive research in French and Vietnamese archives, an exhaustive reading of contemporary French and Vietnamesejournalistic and polemical accounts, and informed by modern scholarship on technological innovation and its social and political impacts, Imperial Intoxication is a major contribution to our understanding of French colonialism, Vietnamese responses to it, and of the relationships between politics and culture in the colonial period and beyond.