History of Laos/Bibliography

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• Castle, Timothy N. At War in the Shadow of Vietnam: U.S. Military Aid to the Royal Lao Government, 1955-1975. Columbia U. Press, 1993. 210 pp.
• Chan, Sucheng, ed. Hmong Means Free: Life in Laos and America. Temple U. Press, 1994. 267 pp.
• Conboy, Kenneth. Shadow War: The CIA's Secret War in Laos. Paladin Press, 1995. Pp. 453.
• Cordell, Helen, ed. Laos. ABC-CLIO, 1991. 215 pp. detailed bibliography
• Dommen, Arthur J. The Indochinese Experience of the French and the Americans: Nationalism and Communism in Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam. Indiana U. Press, 2002. 1172 pp.
• Eliades, George Christopher, II. "United States Decision-Making in Laos, 1942-1962." PhD dissertation Harvard U. 1999. 433 pp. DAI 2000 60(7): 2645-A. DA9935773 Fulltext: in ProQuest Dissertations & Theses
• Evans, Grant, ed. Laos: Culture and Society. Singapore: Inst. of Southeast Asian Studies, 2000. 313 pp.
• Freedman, Lawrence. Kennedy's Wars: Berlin, Cuba, Laos, and Vietnam. Oxford U. Press, 2002. 528 pp.
• Hamilton-Merritt, Jane. Tragic Mountains: The Hmong, the Americans, and the Secret Wars for Laos, 1942-1992. Indiana U. Press, 1993. 580 pp.
• Kochavi, Noam. "Limited Accommodation, Perpetuated Conflict: Kennedy, China, and the Laos Crisis, 1961-1963." Diplomatic History 2002 26(1): 95-135. Issn: 0145-2096 Fulltext: in Ebsco
• Ngaosrivathana, Mayoury and Breazeale, Kenneth, ed. Breaking New Ground in Lao History: Essays on the Seventh to Twentieth Centuries. Chiang Mai, Thailand: Silkworm, 2003. 383 pp.
• Pholsena, Vatthana. "The Changing Historiographies of Laos: a Focus on the Early Period." Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 2004 35(2): 235-259. Issn: 0022-4634
• Quincy, Keith. Hmong, History of a People. Eastern Washington U. Press, 2nd ed. 1995. 244 pp.
• Stuart-Fox, Martin. A History of Laos, Cambridge University Press 1997, 253pp
• Stuart-Fox, Martin. "The French in Laos, 1887-1945." Modern Asian Studies 1995 29(1): 111-139. Issn: 0026-749x Fulltext: in Jstor
• Stuart-Fox, Martin and Kooyman, Mary. Historical Dictionary of Laos. Scarecrow, 1992. 258 pp.
• Tanabe, Shigeharu and Keyes, Charles F., eds. Cultural Crisis and Social Memory: Modernity and Identity in Thailand and Laos. U. of Hawai`i Press, 2002. 312 pp.
• Walker, Andrew. The Legend of the Golden Boat: Regulation, Trade and Traders in the Borderlands of Laos, Thailand, China and Burma. Curzon, 1999. 232 pp.
• Yang, Kou. "Hmong Diaspora of the Post-war Period." Asian and Pacific Migration Journal 2003 12(3): 271-300. Issn: 0117-1968
• Zhang, Xiaoming. "China's Involvement in Laos During the Vietnam War, 1963-1975." Journal of Military History 2002 66(4): 1141-1166. Issn: 0899-3718 Fulltext: in Jstor