Contesting Visions of the Lao Past: Lao Historiography at the Crossroads - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 8791114020 ISBN 13 : 9788791114021

Editeur : NIAS Press, 2004

Synopsis

While the birth of any nation is always more complicated than official historiographies purport, the complex positioning of Laos at the crossroads of a wide range of historical, geographical and cultural currents makes this particularly true. 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 do the contributors to this volume consider how the Lao have written their own nationalist and revolutionary history 'on the inside', they also examine 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 inter-linked. Nationalist historiography, like the formation of the nation-state, did not emerge within a nationalist vacuum but was rather contested from the inside and the outside. The volume's approach has applications and implications far beyond Laos and shows that studying small countries counts.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Christopher Goscha 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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: NIAS Press
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 8791114020
• ISBN 13: 9788791114021
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 356
• Éditeur: Goscha Christopher E., Ivarsson Søren
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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