Living Mekong, The Tai Study Ralph Isaacs worked with the

Ralph Isaacs worked with the British Council in Burma from 1989 to 1994

Reinstituting Islamic law has become a dominant political issue in both countries

She provides a richly textured cultural genealogy of state formation in Cambodia by reassessing the impact of French colonialism on modern Khmer thought and nation building

Professor of Southeast Asian History

and their value as important—often the first—treatment of their subject:

Living Mekong, The Tai Study Ralph Isaacs worked with thePhotography by Joe Garrison, text by Delia Paul Color photographs throughout. Hardcover, paper on board, jacket The Living Mekong shows how the Mekong's seasonal rise and fall shapes daily life for the people who live on and around it, in matters from transport to festivals to fish trap design. By world standards, the Mekong fishery is immense in scale, producing around 2. 5 million tons of wild fish a year, or roughly two per cent of the entire world