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Creating Laos - The Making of a Lao Space Between Indochina and Siam, 1860-1945 (Paperback)
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Creating Laos - The Making of a Lao Space Between Indochina and Siam, 1860-1945 (Paperback)
Series: NIAS Monograph Series, 112
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The existence of Laos today is taken for granted. But the
crystallization of a Lao national idea and ultimate independence
for the country was a long and uncertain process. This book
examines the process through which Laos came into existence under
French colonial rule through to the end of World War II. Rather
than assuming that the Laos we see today was an historical given,
the book looks at how Laos' position at the intersection of two
conflicting spatial layouts of 'Thailand' and 'Indochina' made its
national form a particularly contested process.This, however, is
not an analysis of nation-building from the perspective of
administrative and political structures. Rather, the book charts
the emergence of a notion of a specifically Lao cultural identity
that served to buttress Laos as a separate 'Lao space', both in
relation to Siam/Thailand and within French Indochina. Based on an
impressive variety of primary sources, many of them never before
used in studies of Lao nationalism, this book makes a significant
contribution to Lao historical studies and to the study of
nation-building in Southeast Asia.
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