{"product_id":"appetites-and-aspirations-in-vietnam-9780759120754","title":"Appetites and Aspirations in Vietnam","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn Vietnam during the long nineteenth century from the Tây Son rebellion to the 1920s, individuals negotiated changing interpretations of their culinary choices by their families, neighbors, and governments. What people ate reflected not just who they were, but also who they wanted to be. Appetites and Aspirations in Vietnam starts with the spread of Vietnamese imperial control from south to north, marking the earliest efforts to create a common Vietnamese culture, as well as resistance to that cultural and culinary imperialism. Once the French conquered the country, new opportunities for culinary experimentation became possible, although such experiences were embraced more by the colonized than the colonizers. This book discusses how colonialism changed the taste of Vietnamese fish sauce and rice liquor and shows that state intervention made those products into tangible icons of a unified Vietnamese cuisine, under attack by the French. Vietnamese villagers began to see the power they \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAppetites and Aspirations in Vietnam is food studies at its best, but it is also much more. Erica J. Peters demonstrates, with both intellectual elegance and a deeply rooted sense of food, how culinary choices are a marker of historical change. Using a diverse array of sources, she goes against the grain to explore everyday life in Vietnam in the long nineteenth century, affording a penetrating insight into what Vietnamese people wanted to be in a time of economic struggle and colonialism, and into how ordinary people experienced habitus and change, adaptation and contestation, even creativity. Appetites and Aspirations in Vietnam is a gourmet meal that leaves the reader satisfied…. The wide range of narratives of food Peters explores … sheds new light on disparities of gender, ethnicity, and wealth. Food may have been a tool of imperialism; it certainly became a tool of nationalism in modern Vietnam. Nobody would have expected the history of a ‘fusion cuisine’ would tell as much. -- Laurence Monnais, Université de Montréal\u003cbr\u003eA reviewer of the wide-ranging Appetites and Aspirations could evaluate this rich study along any number of axes: economic history, the history of imperial and colonial Vietnam, or the history of race and ethnicity, to name a few. Nonetheless, food is most emphatically Peters’s preferred ground and where she anchors her argument that French and Vietnamese used diet to shape radically divergent identities in colonial Indochina….It would be unfair to expect a study so ambitious to succeed equally well on so many fronts….Nonetheless, this fascinating and suggestive narrative of nineteenth-century imperial and colonial Vietnam will appeal to a wide range of general readers and specialists. * H-France Review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction Prologue: Hunger and Revolution Chapter 1. Vietnamese Culinary Imperialism Chapter 2. Culinary Diversity in the Colonial Countryside Chapter 3. Cooking up Monopolies Chapter 4. Fighting Back: The Factory Alcohol Boycott Chapter 5. Chinese Cuisine, Commerce, and Contamination Chapter 6. Imported Foods, Imperial Foods Chapter 7. Conspicuous Consumption Epilogue Notes Glossary Selected Bibliography and Sources Index","brand":"AltaMira Press,U.S.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48884383646039,"sku":"9780759120754","price":93.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780759120754.jpg?v=1722531709","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/appetites-and-aspirations-in-vietnam-9780759120754","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}