Storm Over Laos
Author | : Sisouk Na Champassak |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 1961 |
Genre | : Laos |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Sisouk Na Champassak |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 1961 |
Genre | : Laos |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Patit Paban Mishra |
Publisher | : National Book Organization |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Laos |
ISBN | : |
Laos, Which Had An Illustrious Past, Is A Tiny Landlocked State, Sharing Common Borders With China, Thailand, Myanmar, Cambodia And Vietnam. It Was Considered Important Strategically During Cold War Years In Pursuit Of Containment Drive. The United States Tried To Prevent The Spread Of Communism In Laos Too, Which Proved Counterproductive. Laotians Objected To The Military Intervention Of The United States And Fought Bravely Under The Leadership Of Pathet Lao. They Finally Became Victorious In Transforming The Political System And Established Communist Rule. The Present Study Has Analyzed How Pathet Lao Was Successful In Its Endeavours Despite Several Weaknesses And Why ?Containment Drive? Lost Its Appeal In Laos And Other Indo-China States.
Author | : Simon Creak |
Publisher | : University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 2017-08-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0824875125 |
This strikingly original book examines how sport and ideas of physicality have shaped the politics and culture of modern Laos. Viewing the country's extraordinary transitions—from French colonialism to royalist nationalism to revolutionary socialism to the modern development state—through the lens of physical culture, Simon Creak's lively and incisive narrative illuminates a nation that has no reputation in sport and is typically viewed, even from within, as a country of cheerful but lazy people. Creak argues that sport and related physical practices—including physical education, gymnastics, and military training—have shaped a national consciousness by locating it in everyday experience. These practices are popular, participatory, performative, and, above all, physical in character and embody ideas and ideologies in a symbolic and experiential way. Embodied Nation takes readers on a brisk ride through more than a century of Lao history, from a nineteenth-century game of tikhi—an indigenous game resembling field hockey—to the country's unprecedented outpouring of nationalist sentiment when hosting the 2009 Southeast Asian Games. En route, we witness a Lao-Vietnamese soccer brawl in 1936, the fascist-inspired body ethic of the early 1940s, the novel modes of military masculinity that blossomed with national independence, the spectacular state theatrics of power represented by Olympic-inspired sports festivals, and the high hopes and frequent failures of socialist sport in the 1970s and 1980s. Of central concern in Creak's narrative are the twin motifs of gender and civilization. Despite increasing female participation since the early twentieth century, he demonstrates the major role that sport and physical culture have played in forming hegemonic masculinities in Laos. Even with limited national sporting success—Laos has never won an Olympic medal—the healthy, toned, and muscular form has come to symbolize material development and prosperity. Embodied Nation outlines the complex ways in which these motifs, through sport and physical culture, articulate with state power. Combining cultural and intellectual history with historical thick description, Creak draws on a creative array of Lao and French sources from previously unexplored archives, newspapers, and magazines, and from ethnographic writing, war photography, and cartoons. More than an "imagined community" or "geobody," he shows that Laos was also a "body at work," making substantive theoretical contributions not only to Southeast Asian studies and history, but to the study of the physical culture, nationalism, masculinity, and modernity in all modern societies.
Author | : Christopher E. Goscha |
Publisher | : NIAS Press |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9788791114021 |
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.
Author | : Guy Redvers Lyle |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1961 |
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Author | : Martin Stuart-Fox |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 1997-09-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521592352 |
This authoritative and wide-ranging history focuses on the period from the founding of modern Laos as a French colony to its independence, involvement in the war in Vietnam, the formation of the communist republic, and the present authoritarian government. The author shows how the nationalist struggle for independence and unity was subverted by foreign intervention, and how the country has now resumed its traditional role as a neutral state in Southeast Asia. This book provides essential background on modern Laos and the challenges it now faces.
Author | : Boike Rehbein |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 179 |
Release | : 2017-04-21 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1351859358 |
This book pursues the theoretical aim of shedding light on the old question raised by Max Weber about the relation between capitalism, (religious) ethos and society. The empirical study consists of a description of the social structures, their embodiment in the habitus and world-views in Laos against the background of a critical revision of Pierre Bourdieu’s sociology. To achieve these aims, the author develops a qualitative methodology as neither Weber nor Bourdieu explained how to empirically study habitus and ethos.
Author | : Vanina Bouté |
Publisher | : NUS Press |
Total Pages | : 473 |
Release | : 2017-04-21 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 981472226X |
Changes in the character of the political regime in Laos after 2000, a massive influx of foreign investment, and disruptions to rural life arising from improved communications and new forms of mobility within and across the borders have produced a major transformation. Alongside these changes, a group of young scholars carried out studies that document the rise of a new social, cultural and economic order. The contributions to this volume draw on original fieldwork materials and unpublished sources, and provide fresh analyses of topics ranging from the structures of power to the politics of territoriality and new forms of sociability in emerging urban spaces.
Author | : Grant Evans |
Publisher | : Allen & Unwin |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1741150531 |
Chronicles the history of Laos, discussing such topics as its early kingdoms, French rule, the Royal Lao Government, and the impact of the Vietnam War.