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

ISBN-13: 9788776940225 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 252 str.

Soren Ivarsson

Opis

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.