Contesting visions of the Lao past : Laos historiography at the crossroads /

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Imprint:Copenhagen : NIAS ; London : Taylor & Francis, 2003.
Description:352 p. : ill., maps.
Language:English
Series:Studies on Asian topics ; 32
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4781066
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Other authors / contributors:Goscha, Christopher E.
Ivarsson, Søren.
Nordic Institute of Asian Studies.
ISBN:8791114020
Notes:Includes index.
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.