The Great Hanoi Rat Hunt tells the darkly humorous story of the French colonial state's failed efforts to impose its vision of modernity upon the colonial city of Hanoi, Vietnam. This book offers a case study in the history of imperialism, highlighting the racialized economic inequalities ofempire, colonization as a form of modernization, and industrial capitalism's creation of a radical power differential between "the West and the rest." On a deeper level, The Great Hanoi Rat Hunt examines the contradictions unique to the French Third Republic's colonial "civilizing mission," thedevelopment of Vietnamese resistance to French rule, and the history of disease. | The Great Hanoi Rat Hunt by Michael G. Vann, Paperback | Indigo Chapters