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""Kathryn Dyt’s The Nature of Kingship is an exciting and important contribution to our understanding of nineteenth-century Vietnamese kingship as seen through the lens of weather. Her highly engaging book, based on a wide reading of primary sources and secondary scholarship, explores how Vietnamese emperors thought about and sought to control weather phenomena throughout their kingdom. Dyt convincingly demonstrates that both phenomenological and conceptual weather elements were central to imperial thinking and to Vietnamese rule more generally. In doing so, she challenges conventional portrayals of these emperors simply as military or political strategists, rather than as rulers with particular relationships to their lands and people."" - George Dutton, University of California, Los Angeles

Kathryn Dyt's The Nature of Kingship is an exciting and important contribution to our understanding of nineteenth-century Vietnamese kingship as seen through the lens of weather. Her highly engaging book, based on a wide reading of primary sources and secondary scholarship, explores how Vietnamese emperors thought about and sought to control weather phenomena throughout their kingdom. Dyt convincingly demonstrates that both phenomenological and conceptual weather elements were central to imperial thinking and to Vietnamese rule more generally. In doing so, she challenges conventional portrayals of these emperors simply as military or political strategists, rather than as rulers with particular relationships to their lands and people.--George Dutton, University of California, Los Angeles

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Kathryn Dyt is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in the History Department at SOAS, University of London.

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