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Forms a rich collage of the central Mekong basin spanning nearly 1,400 years of history

Table of Contents

List of Maps

Introduction

Contributors

On the Writing of Lao History: Continuities and Discontinuities

Wen Dan and Its Neighbours: The Central Mekong Valley in the seventh and eighth centuries

Evolution of the Chronicle of Luang Prabang: A Comparison of Sixteen Versions

Early European Impressions of the Lao

The Universal History: An Early European Account of the Lao

The Kingdom of Laos: An Edited Reprint of the 1759 Universal History

The Quy Hop Archive: Vietnamese-Lao Relations Reflected in Border-Post Documents Dating from 1619 to 1880

The Lao - Tay-son Alliance, 1792 and 1793

Millenarian Movements in Laos: 1895-1936: Depictions by Modern Lao Historians

Laos Mapped by Treaty and Decree, 1895-1907

References

Index

About the Author

Mayoury Ngaosrivathana is the coauthor of Paths to Conflagration. Kennon Breazeale is projects coordinator, East-West Center, Honolulu.