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Laos in 1893

A Historical Introduction to Laos in 1893 (being a new translation & edition of "Le Laos Annamite"

This compelling study by bureaucrat, explorer, traveler, art collector, and guidebook writer, Charles Lemire (1839-1912), offers a highly colored portrait-in-miniature of late-Nineteenth-Century French Indochina vividly documenting the intense Siamese (Thai) and French rivalry in this region. A robust colonialist, Lemire is chary of Thai expansionism and fearful about England’s economic and territorial ambitions in Southeast Asia. Deeply, and even relentlessly a man of his time, Lemire observes this terrain with a jealous and skilled eye, eagerly attempting to engage his far-distant compatriots’ interest in a region he knew well. Polemical to a fault and riven with the contradictions of the colonialist enterprise, this snapshot of the late 1890s, will be of considerable interest to the reader of today. Original maps showing Thai military outposts and supplementary ethnographic illustrations enrich the text. (With an Introduction by Eisel Mazard.)
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PUBLISHER: White Lotus
ISBN: 9789744801357
AUTHOR Lemire, Charles
RELEASED 2008-08-20
PRINT Bangkok 2008, first English trans. of 1894;
WL CODE E22610
SIZE 112 pp., 16 pp. illus., 2 folded maps, 150 x 210 mm
BOOK WEIGHT 0.260 Kg
PACKING WEIGHT 0.200 Kg

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