Breaking new ground in Lao history : essays on the seventh to twentieth centuries / edited by Mayoury Ngaosrivathana and Kennon Breazeale.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 337-364) and index.

On the writing of Lao history / Martin Stuart-Fox -- Wen Dan and its neighbours, the Central Mekong Valley in the seventh and eighth centuries / Tatsuo Hoshino -- Evolution of the chronicle of Luang Prabang / Souneth Phothisane -- Early European impressions of the Lao / Mayoury Ngaosrivathana and Pheuiphanh Ngaosrivathana -- The universal history, an early European account of Lao / Meg O'Donovan -- The Kingdom of Laos / Universal History -- The Quy Hop archive, Vietnamese-Lao relations reflected in border-post documents dating from 1619 to 1880 / Tran Van Quy -- The Lao-Tay-son alliance, 1792 and 1793 / Kennon Breazeale -- Millenarian movements in Laos, 1895-1936 / Bernard Gay -- Laos mapped by treaty and decree, 1895-1907 / Kennon Breazeale.