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Contesting Visions of the Lao Past : Lao Historiography at the Crossroads, Hardback Book

Contesting Visions of the Lao Past : Lao Historiography at the Crossroads Hardback

Edited by Christopher Goscha, Soren Ivarsson

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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.

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