Creating Laos: The Making of a Lao Space between Indochina and Siam, 1860-1945

TY - BOOK

T1 - Creating Laos

T2 - The Making of a Lao Space between Indochina and Siam, 1860-1945

AU - Ivarsson, Søren

PY - 2008

Y1 - 2008

N2 - The existence of Laos today is taken for granted. But the crystallization of a Lao national idea and ultimately 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 a historical given, the book looks at how Laos's position at the intersection of two conflicting spatial layouts of 'Thailand' and 'Iindochina' made its national form a particularly contested process.

AB - The existence of Laos today is taken for granted. But the crystallization of a Lao national idea and ultimately 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 a historical given, the book looks at how Laos's position at the intersection of two conflicting spatial layouts of 'Thailand' and 'Iindochina' made its national form a particularly contested process.

KW - Faculty of Humanities

KW - Laos

KW - Nationalisme

KW - Kolonialisme

KW - Laos

KW - Nationalism

KW - Colonialism

M3 - Book

SN - 978-87-7694-022-5

BT - Creating Laos

PB - NIAS Press

CY - Copenhagen

ER -