Vientiane: Transformations of a Lao Landscape.(Book review)

Contemporary Southeast Asia | December 1, 2007| | Copyright

Vientiane: Transformations of a Lao Landscape. By Marc Askew, William S. Logan and Colin Long. London: Routledge, 2007. Hardcover: 265pp.

This book, as the authors say, is the first attempt to write a social and political history of Vientiane. The first and last chapters are written by all three authors, and besides this there are chapters on the pre-colonial period by Askew, the French period by Logan, the Royal Lao Government (RLG) by Long and Askew, and on the Lao People's Democratic Republic (LPDR) by Long. The book is well produced and interesting photos are ...

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