Quagmire: Nation-Building and Nature in the Mekong Delta Architecture AUNG ZAW is the founder

AUNG ZAW is the founder of The Irrawaddy news publication

He is also a talented artist whose work has been exhibited in public and used to illustrate several books

The editors draw on evidence presented in the book to argue that the politics of decentralization is best understood as the terrain of negotiation and conflict

tell how the turmoil gave shape to the nation

Quagmire: Nation-Building and Nature in the Mekong Delta Architecture AUNG ZAW is the founderWith a foreword by William Cronon In the twentieth century, the Mekong Delta emerged as one of Vietnams most important economic regions. Its swamps, marshes, creeks, and canals played a major role in Vietnams turbulent past, from the struggles of colonialism, to the Cold War, and to the present day. Quagmire considers these struggles, their antecedents, and their legacies from the perspective of environmental history. Beginning with the French