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Bangkok: White Lotus Press, 1998. Paperback. Very Good/no dj. 0.38. The book provides a narrative account of the great Lao kingdom that flourished in the middle Mekong region between the fourteenth and eighteenth centuries. After an introductory chapter on the prehistory of Laos and migration of the Tai-Lao peoples, the foundation of a unified Lao kingdom is examined in the context of contending powers in mainland Southeast Asia. Among the events described are the Vietnamese invasion of the fifteenth century and subsequent consolidation of the Lao kingdom, the Burmese invasions of the following century and the arrival in the early seventeenth century of the first Europeans to visit the Lao capital of Viang Chan (Vientiane). The author shows how the inland Lao kingdom was disadvantaged with respect to coastal trading states and how the unitary Lao kingdom broke into three contending principalities in the early eighteenth century. This opened the way for Siamese domination of the Lao world. The last…
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The Lao Kingdom of Lan-Xang: Rise and Decline Paperback - 1998
by Stuart-Fox, Martin
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- Title The Lao Kingdom of Lan-Xang: Rise and Decline
- Author Stuart-Fox, Martin
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Edition
- Language ENG
- Publisher White Lotus Co Ltd, Bangkok
- Date 1998
- ISBN 9789748434339
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