Contesting Visions of the Lao Past
Lao Historiography at the Crossroads
Will be published approx. on 11. November 2004
Book
Hardback
356 pages
978-87-91114-02-1 (ISBN)
Description
It is well known that Laos' emergence as a modern nation-state in the 20th century owed much to a complex interplay of internal and external forces. This book argues that the historiography of Laos needs also to be understood in this wider context.
Not only does this volume consider how the Lao have written their own nationalist and revolutionary history 'on the inside'; it also examines how others the French, Vietnamese, and Thais have tried to write the history of Laos 'from the outside' for their own political ends. Rather than divorcing these two trends, this book demonstrates that they were interlinked. This is an approach that has applications and implications far beyond Laos.
Not only does this volume consider how the Lao have written their own nationalist and revolutionary history 'on the inside'; it also examines how others the French, Vietnamese, and Thais have tried to write the history of Laos 'from the outside' for their own political ends. Rather than divorcing these two trends, this book demonstrates that they were interlinked. This is an approach that has applications and implications far beyond Laos.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Copenhagen
Denmark
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
8 figures, 2 maps, 2 tables
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
ISBN-13
978-87-91114-02-1 (9788791114021)
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Persons
Christopher GoschaA is Associate Professor of International Relations and Southeast Asian History at the Universite du Quebec Montreal. He has published widely on cultural, social, political, and diplomatic aspects of colonial Indochina and the wars for modern Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia.
Soren Ivarsson is an associate professor in the Department of History, University of Copenhagen. Well versed in the histories of Laos and Thailand, he is particularly interested in nationalism, state formation and historiography in these countries.
Soren Ivarsson is an associate professor in the Department of History, University of Copenhagen. Well versed in the histories of Laos and Thailand, he is particularly interested in nationalism, state formation and historiography in these countries.
Content
Christopher E. Goscha and Soren Ivarsson: Introduction; Part I: Before modern boundaries; Michael Vickery: Two Historical Records of the Kingdom of Vientiane; Volker Grabowsky: Chiang Khaeng 1893-96: A Lue Principality in the Upper Mekong Valley at the Centre of Franco-British Rivalry; Part II: Contesting new Lao pasts: From the inside; Martin Stuart-Fox: Historiography, Power, and Identity: History and Political Legitimisation in Laos; Grant Evans: Different Paths: Lao Historiography in Historical Perspective; Chalong Soontravanich: Sila Viravong's Phongsavadan Lao: A Reappraisal; Bruce M. Lockhart: Narrating 1945 in Lao Historiography; Peter Koret: Leup Phasum (Extinguishing the Light of the Sun): Romance, Religion, and Politics in the Interpretation of a Traditional Lao Poem; Part III: Contesting new Lao pasts: From the outside; Agathe Larcher-Goscha: On the Trail of an Itinerant Explorer: French Colonial Historiography on Auguste Pavie's Work in Laos; Soren Ivarsson: Making Laos "Our" Space: Thai Discourses on History and Race, 1900-1941; Christopher E. Goscha: Indochinese Past Perfect: Communist Vietnam's Revolutionary Historiography of Laos; Index