Contesting visions of the Lao past : Lao historiography at the crossroads /
Laos's emergence as a modern nation-state in the 20th century owed much to a complex interplay of internal and external forces. Arguing that the historiography of Laos needs to be understood in this wider context, this study considers how the Lao have written their own nationalist and revolutio...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Copenhagen :
NIAS,
2003.
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| Series: | NIAS studies in Asian topics ;
32. |
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| Online Access: | Table of contents |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Christopher E. Goscha and Soren Ivarsson
- 1. Two historical records of the Kingdom of Vientiane / Michael Vickery
- 2. Chiang Khaeng 1893-1896 : a Lue principality in the upper Mekong valley at the centre of Franco-British Rivalry / Volker Grabowsky
- 3. Historiography, power and identity : history and political legitimization in Laos / Martin Stuart-Fox
- 4. Different paths : Lao historiography in historical perspective / Grant Evans
- 5. Sila Viravong's Phongsawadan Lao : a reappraisal / Chalong Soontravanich
- 6. Narrating 1945 in Lao historiography / Bruce M. Lockhart
- 7. The Nyuan in Xayabury and cross-border links to Nan / Akiko Iijima
- 8. Luep Phasun (extinguishing the light of the sun) : romance, religion and politics in the interpretation of a traditional Lao poem / Peter Koret
- 9. On the trail of an itinerant explorer : French colonial historiography on Auguste Pavie's work in Laos / Agathe Larcher-Goscha
- 10. Making Laos 'our' space : Thai discourses on history and race, 1900-1941 / Soren Ivarsson
- 11. Revolutionizing the Indochinese past : communist Vietnam's 'special' historiography on Laos / Christopher E. Goscha.