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Article Excerpt
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 used throughout. The admirable aim of the book is to restore historical Vientiane to its rightful place as a key urban centre in the Middle...
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