Creating Laos: The Making of a Lao Space Between Indochina and Siam, 1860-1945

Creating Laos: The Making of a Lao Space Between Indochina and Siam, 1860-1945
ISBN-10
8776940233
ISBN-13
9788776940232
Category
History
Pages
252
Language
English
Published
2008
Publisher
NIAS Press
Author
Søren Ivarsson

Description

This book examines the process through which Laos came into existence under French colonial rule through to the end of World War II. Here, Laos's position at the intersection of two conflicting spatial layouts of Thailand and Indochina made its national form a particularly contested process. Rather than analyze this process in terms of administrative and political structures, the book discusses how a specific idea about a separate Lao space and its culture was formed.

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