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Book Laos  Beyond the Revolution

    Book Details:
  • Author : Joseph J. Zasloff
  • Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
  • Release : 2014-01-14
  • ISBN : 9781349112166
  • Pages : 348 pages

Download or read book Laos Beyond the Revolution written by Joseph J. Zasloff and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-01-14 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work contains papers presented at a conference called "Current Developments in Laos" in Washington DC in 1988. The topics covered range from Lao nationalism and American policy, 1954-1959, to Laotian refugees in Thailand.

Book Laos  Beyond the Revolution

Download or read book Laos Beyond the Revolution written by Joseph J. Zasloff and published by Springer. This book was released on 1991-06-18 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work contains papers presented at a conference called "Current Developments in Laos" in Washington DC in 1988. The topics covered range from Lao nationalism and American policy, 1954-1959, to Laotian refugees in Thailand.

Book Contesting Visions of the Lao Past

Download or read book Contesting Visions of the Lao Past written by Christopher E. Goscha and published by NIAS Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Laos's emergence as a modern nation-state in the 20th century owed much to a complex interplay of internal and external forces. Arguing that the historiography of Laos needs to be understood in this wider context, this study considers how the Lao have written their own nationalist and revolutionary history "on the inside," while others-the French, Vietnamese, and Thais-have attempted to write the history of Laos "from the outside" for their own political ends. As nationalist historiography, like the formation of the nation-state, does not emerge within a nationalist vacuum but rather is created and contested from inside and out, this incisive volume's approach has applications and implications far beyond Laos.

Book A History of Laos

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  • Author : Martin Stuart-Fox
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 1997-09-28
  • ISBN : 9780521597463
  • Pages : 278 pages

Download or read book A History of Laos written by Martin Stuart-Fox and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-09-28 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This authoritative and wide-ranging 1997 history traces events in this little-known country from ancient monarchy, through its establishment as a French colony, to independence in 1953, the People's Democratic Republic, and the present one-party authoritarianism. The book highlights Laos' complex and shifting political alliances. The struggle for independence from France was followed by a struggle for unity and neutrality in the face of persistent foreign intervention, as the country was drawn into the war in Vietnam. Only with the end of the Cold War and the withdrawal of Vietnamese troops has Laos been able to reassert its neutral foreign policy and develop a market economy. This book is an impressive political, social, cultural and economic history. It will be essential for anyone wanting to understand Laos as it joins ASEAN, faces great economic challenges and struggles to maintain its cultural identity.

Book Laos  War and Revolution

Download or read book Laos War and Revolution written by and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Politics of Ritual and Remembrance

Download or read book The Politics of Ritual and Remembrance written by Grant Evans and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Communist revolutions in this century have suppressed existing ritual and symbolic structures and invented new ones. Armed with new flags, new national celebrations, or new school textbooks, they have attempted to reconstruct social memory. This fascinating work of political anthropology examines the case of Laos from the heady days of the 1975 revolution to the more sober "post-socialist" present. Grant Evans traces the attempt at ritual and symbolic change in Laos, and the recent reemergence of older and deeper cultural structures, while identifying what has perhaps been irretrievably lost. In this challenging study of the cultural consequences of failed total revolution, Evans reaches some striking conclusions concerning the nature of social memory, cultural possibilities foregone, and the need for cultural continuity.

Book Laos

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  • Author : Martin Stuart-Fox
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1986
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 252 pages

Download or read book Laos written by Martin Stuart-Fox and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: General study of politics, the economy and society in the Lao PDR - reports on history, the influence of Buddhism, colonialism, and political developments up to the advent of the communist government; examines the social structure, ethnic groups, and socialist-based social change; analyses the political system, economic system (incl. The agricultural sector), and standard of living, defence policy, educational policy, social policy, cultural policy, foreign policy, etc. Bibliography, diagrams, map, statistical tables.

Book Revolution in Laos

Download or read book Revolution in Laos written by Kaisō̜n Phomvihān and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Stalking the Elephant Kings

Download or read book Stalking the Elephant Kings written by Christopher Kremmer and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Laos  War and Revolution

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  • Author : Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars
  • Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
  • Release : 1970
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 516 pages

Download or read book Laos War and Revolution written by Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1970 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the John Holmes Library collection.

Book Laos

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  • Author : Anne M. Jonas
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1961
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Laos written by Anne M. Jonas and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Revolution in Laos

Download or read book Revolution in Laos written by Don Fletcher and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Revolution in Laos and Kampuchea

Download or read book Revolution in Laos and Kampuchea written by Clayton S. Sinyai and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Lao She and the Chinese Revolution

Download or read book Lao She and the Chinese Revolution written by Ranbir Vohra and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Great Place to Have a War

Download or read book A Great Place to Have a War written by Joshua Kurlantzick and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-01-24 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The untold story of how America’s secret war in Laos in the 1960s transformed the CIA from a loose collection of spies into a military operation and a key player in American foreign policy. January, 1961: Laos, a tiny nation few Americans have heard of, is at risk of falling to communism and triggering a domino effect throughout Southeast Asia. This is what President Eisenhower believed when he approved the CIA’s Operation Momentum, creating an army of ethnic Hmong to fight communist forces there. Largely hidden from the American public—and most of Congress—Momentum became the largest CIA paramilitary operation in the history of the United States. The brutal war lasted more than a decade, left the ground littered with thousands of unexploded bombs, and changed the nature of the CIA forever. With “revelatory reporting” and “lucid prose” (The Economist), Kurlantzick provides the definitive account of the Laos war, focusing on the four key people who led the operation: the CIA operative whose idea it was, the Hmong general who led the proxy army in the field, the paramilitary specialist who trained the Hmong forces, and the State Department careerist who took control over the war as it grew. Using recently declassified records and extensive interviews, Kurlantzick shows for the first time how the CIA’s clandestine adventures in one small, Southeast Asian country became the template for how the United States has conducted war ever since—all the way to today’s war on terrorism.

Book The Laotian Revolution

Download or read book The Laotian Revolution written by Tuan Viet and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: