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Author : Sisouk Na Champassak
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Laos
ISBN : STANFORD:36105120043505
Author : Nathaniel L. Moir
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2022-04-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780197654255
In a 1965 letter to Newsweek, French writer and academic Bernard Fall (1926-67) staked a claim as the 'Number One Realist' on the Vietnam War. This is the first book to study the thought of this overlooked figure, one of the most important experts on counterinsurgency warfare in Indochina. Nathaniel L. Moir's intellectual history analyses Fall's formative experiences: his service in the French underground and army during the Second World War; his father's execution by the Germans and his mother's murder in Auschwitz; and his work as a research analyst at the Nuremberg Trials. Moir demonstrates how these critical events shaped Fall's trenchant analysis of Viet Minh-led revolutionary warfare during the French-Indochina War and the early Vietnam War. In the years before conventional American intervention in 1965, Fall argued that--far more than anything in the United States' military arsenal--resolving conflict in Vietnam would require political strength, willpower, integrity and skill. Number One Realist illuminates Fall's study of political reconciliation in Indochina, while showing how his profound, humanitarian critique of war continues to echo in the endless conflicts of the present. It will challenge and change the way we think about the Vietnam War.
Author : Martin Stuart-Fox
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1997-09-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0521597463
This authoritative and wide-ranging 1997 history traces events in this little-known country from ancient monarchy, through its establishment as a French colony, to independence in 1953, the People's Democratic Republic, and the present one-party authoritarianism. The book highlights Laos' complex and shifting political alliances. The struggle for independence from France was followed by a struggle for unity and neutrality in the face of persistent foreign intervention, as the country was drawn into the war in Vietnam. Only with the end of the Cold War and the withdrawal of Vietnamese troops has Laos been able to reassert its neutral foreign policy and develop a market economy. This book is an impressive political, social, cultural and economic history. It will be essential for anyone wanting to understand Laos as it joins ASEAN, faces great economic challenges and struggles to maintain its cultural identity.
Author : Sucheng Chan
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1994-04-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781566391634
Three generations of Hmong refugees expose the trauma and the joy of their lives
Author : Various Authors
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 1862 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2022-07-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317451310
This 7-volume set reissues a range of classic out-of-print texts that cover a host of issues that have contributed to the development of modern East and South East Asia. With titles covering economics, politics, history, anthropology and security, this set provides the researcher with an essential resource on the region.
Author : Seth Jacobs
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2012-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801464041
During the Eisenhower and Kennedy administrations, Laos was positioned to become a major front in the Cold War. Yet American policymakers ultimately chose to resist communism in neighboring South Vietnam instead. Two generations of historians have explained this decision by citing logistical considerations. Laos's landlocked, mountainous terrain, they hold, made the kingdom an unpropitious place to fight, while South Vietnam-possessing a long coastline, navigable rivers, and all-weather roads-better accommodated America's military forces. The Universe Unraveling is a provocative reinterpretation of U.S.-Laos relations in the years leading up to the Vietnam War. Seth Jacobs argues that Laos boasted several advantages over South Vietnam as a battlefield, notably its thousand-mile border with Thailand, whose leader was willing to allow Washington to use his nation as a base from which to attack the communist Pathet Lao. More significant in determining U.S. policy in Southeast Asia than strategic appraisals of the Laotian landscape were cultural perceptions of the Lao people. Jacobs contends that U.S. policy toward Laos under Eisenhower and Kennedy cannot be understood apart from the traits Americans ascribed to their Lao allies. Drawing on diplomatic correspondence and the work of iconic figures like "celebrity saint" Tom Dooley, Jacobs finds that the characteristics American statesmen and the American media attributed to the Lao-laziness, immaturity, and cowardice-differed from the traits assigned the South Vietnamese, making Lao chances of withstanding communist aggression appear dubious. The Universe Unraveling combines diplomatic, cultural, and military history to provide a new perspective on how prejudice can shape policy decisions and even the course of history.
Author : Sanda Simms
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136863370
Describes the changes in society over 600 years as Lan Xang was gradually dismembered and became a French colony. Most importantly, it shows the essence of the Lao and why, despite all that has happened, they possess their own social and cultural values that mark them as distinctive.
Author : Warren Grice Yates,Souksomboun Sayasithsena
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 854 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Government publications
ISBN : UCAL:B4220917
Author : Thomas S. Vang
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9781435709324
This is the first completely up-to-date Hmong history book ever written by a member of the Hmong people. It describes the earliest civilizations of the Hmong and Miao in China, and why some of the Hmong migrated into Southeast Asia in the early 19th century, particularly to Vietnam, Laos and Thailand; and how the Hmong of Laos were involved with the Lao civil war, especially the secret war from 1962 to 1975 that caused almost a hundred thousand Hmong to flee to Thailand and Western countries as political refugees after the Communists takeover. This book includes the forcible repatriation of the Lao-Hmong asylum seekers at Nam Khao refugee camp in Thailand back to Laos in late 2009 and the arrest and discharge of former General Vang Pao by the U.S. authorities. "[It] is full of fascinating materials [and] a wonderful book. Congratulations," commented by Dr Nicholas C. T. Tapp, Senior Fellow in the Department of Anthropology, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, the Australian National University.
Author : United States. Congress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1416 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MINN:31951D02196800O
Author : Jarred Breaux
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2009-03-11
Category : Laos
ISBN : 9781435731516
The Laotian Civil War: The Intransigence of General Phoumi Nosavan and American Intervention in the Fall of 1960 focuses on a specific event during American-sponsored âSecret Warâ in Laos. In the fall of 1960, General Kong Le overthrew the Laotian government that was established after Laos had declared their independence from France. However, Kong Le still recognized the power of the Laotian King, a person who was really at the mercy of the military generals. This thesis proves that General Phoumi Nosavan was intentionally uncooperative in negotiating a coalition government because he wanted to seize the city himself and appoint a Rightist pro-Western anti-Communist Prime Minister.
Author : J. Paxton
Publisher : Springer
Page : 1585 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230271029
The classic reference work that provides annually updated information on the countries of the world.
Author : United States Air Force Academy. Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Comparative government
ISBN : IND:30000139836625
Author : Frank E. Walton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Laos
ISBN : IND:30000087297986
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1230 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Government publications
ISBN : UVA:35007000046874
