Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Foreword by the Series Editors xi
5. Acknowledgments xiii
6. Introduction 1
7. 1. Escaping Death in the Tropics 6
8. 2. Murder on the Race for Altitude 21
9. 3. Health, Altitude, and Climate 35
10. 4. Early Dalat, 1898-1918 58
11. 5. Colonial Expectations, Pastimes, Comestibles, Comforts, and Discomforts 72
12. 6. Situating the “Montagnards” 94
13. 7. A Functional City? Architecture, Planning, Zoning, and Their Critics 112
14. 8. The Dalat Palace Hotel 138
15. 9. Vietnamese Dalat 158
16. 10. Some Colonial Categories: Children, European Women, and Métis 178
17. 11. Divine Dalat 194
18. 12. The Maelstrom, 1940-1945 207
19. 13. Autonomous Province or Federal Capital? 224
20. 14. Dalat at War and Peace, 1946-1975 239
21. Epilogue 261
22. Notes 267
23. Select Bibliography 327
24. Index 343