Creating Laos

Creating Laos
Author: Søren Ivarsson
Publisher: NIAS Press
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2008
Genre: History
ISBN: 8776940233

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.

Two Yankee Diplomats in 1830s Siam

Two Yankee Diplomats in 1830s Siam
Author: Edmund Roberts
Publisher:
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2002
Genre: History
ISBN:

This volume presents accounts of two 1830s American diplomatic missions to Siam, aimed at securing better trade terms than those obtained during the British Burney mission of 1826. The first American diplomatic mission to Siam was led by Edmund Roberts in 1822. He attempted to secure better terms than the British Burney mission of 1826 had obtained, but the Treaty of Amity and Commerce between His Majesty the Magnificent King of Siam, and the United States of America, which he concluded, was much the same, reducing the numerous arbitrary charges on trade to a single

The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music

The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music
Author: Terry E. Miller
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 1046
Release: 2017-09-25
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1351544209

The first complete music reference for the region, this volume covers all the nations of modern Southeast Asia: Burma, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines in thirty-five articles, written by twenty-seven expert contributors.

A History of Thailand

A History of Thailand
Author: Chris Baker
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 405
Release: 2022-04-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 1009014838

A History of Thailand offers a lively and accessible account of Thailand's political, economic, social, and cultural history.