TY - JOUR
AU - Clarence-Smith, William G.
AB - BOOK REVIEWS 367 plenty of insightful material for historians, philosophers, and scientists interested in the many facets of the periodic system. © 2019 Karoliina Pulkkinen KAROLIINA PULKKINEN DOI 10.1080/00026980.2019.1610598 University of Cambridge Rubber and the Making of Vietnam: An Ecological History, 1897–1975.ByMICHITAKE ASO. Pp. 405+xvii, illus., index. The University of North Carolina Press: Chapel Hill. 2018. £70 (hardcover), £25.30 (paperback), £18.40 (ebook). ISBN: 978-1-4696-3714-3 (hardcover), 978-1-4696-3715-0 (paperback), 978-1-4696-3716-7 (ebook). Not unreasonably expecting to find an ecological history of rubber in Vietnam between the covers of this book, a reader might well feel somewhat frustrated. Such a history is there, in places. However, it is buried in a mass of other material, mainly concerning the political, social, and military trajectory of the southern part of the country in the colonial and early independence eras. This is a real pity, as the general history of southern Vietnam has been told countless times, whereas the region’s environmental past remains in large part to be explored. And yet, there is a plethora of information here, mainly mined from colonial archives and interviews, and a diligent reader can find a kernel of an ecological story. At its centre was the process of tropical forest 
TI - Rubber and the Making of Vietnam: An Ecological History, 1897–1975
JF - Ambix: The Journal of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry
DO - 10.1080/00026980.2019.1611017
DA - 2019-10-02
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SP - 367
EP - 368
VL - 66
IS - 4
DP - DeepDyve
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