Author: Viliam PhraxayavongPublisher: Silkworm Books
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Originally presented as: Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Sydney, 2007.
History of Aid to Laos
Author: Viliam PhraxayavongPublisher: Silkworm Books
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Originally presented as: Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Sydney, 2007.
History of Aid to Laos
Author: Viliam PhraxayavongPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economic assistance
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description
A History of Laos
Author: Martin Stuart-FoxPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521597463
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
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.
AID Activities in Laos
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Foreign RelationsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Embodied Nation
Author: Simon CreakPublisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824875125
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
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.
Disaster History
Author: History of the Office of the Secretary of Defense: The McNamara ascendancy, 1961-1965
Author: Alfred GoldbergPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : National security
Languages : en
Pages : 722
Book Description
Historical Summary
Author: United States. Dept. of the Army. Office of Military HistoryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
Congressional Record
Author: United States. CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1316
Book Description
The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)
International History of the Twentieth Century
Author: Antony BestPublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 0415207401
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
Using their thematic and regional expertise, four prominent authors have produced an authoritative yet accessible account of the history of international relations in the last century, covering events in Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Africa and the Americas.