Dave and Matt sit down with Michael Vannto talk about his new graphic history,The Great Hanoi Rat Hunt: Empire, Disease, and Modernity in French Colonial Vietnam. Your hosts discuss thejoy of finding unexpected things in the archive, the necessity of writing a colonial urban history as a world history, the importance of cultural history and thick description, and the opportunities that graphic histories give teachers in the classroom. Also, check out Mike's excellently-titled article in the Journal of World History:Sex and the Colonial City: Mapping Masculinity, Whiteness, and Desire in French Occupied Hanoi Recommendations: All -The Great Hanoi Rat Hunt: Empire, Disease, and Modernity in French Colonial Vietnam by Michael G. Vann and Liz Clarke Micheal -Melancholy Order:Asian Migration and the Globalization of Borders byAdam M. McKeown Dave -Matatu: A History of Popular Transportation in Nairobi by Kenda Mutongi Ghana on the Go: African Mobility in the Age of Motor Transportationby...