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Champassak Royalty and Sovereignty
Within and between Nation-States in Mainland Southeast Asia
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eBook - PDF
Champassak Royalty and Sovereignty
Within and between Nation-States in Mainland Southeast Asia
About this book
The Kingdom of Champassak was founded in 1713 in what is now southern Laos, and its royal lineage, the House of Champassak, continues to the present. In this historical study of Champassak, Ian G. Baird explores the ways it has asserted its sovereignty across time and through monumental historical shifts, including the delineation of national boundaries for Laos, Thailand, and Cambodia in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
In re-creating this story, Baird draws not only on a dazzling variety of primary sources in English, French, Lao, and Thai but also on many years spent in conversation with members of the Na Champassak family, who are now spread across a wide geographical area, from Laos and Thailand to France and the United States. Each chapter treats one historical period, identifying the Champassak approach to sovereignty during that time. Through this deep history, Baird shows how sovereign power, even within one case, takes a wide range of forms, always contingent, contested, and uneven across space and time.
In re-creating this story, Baird draws not only on a dazzling variety of primary sources in English, French, Lao, and Thai but also on many years spent in conversation with members of the Na Champassak family, who are now spread across a wide geographical area, from Laos and Thailand to France and the United States. Each chapter treats one historical period, identifying the Champassak approach to sovereignty during that time. Through this deep history, Baird shows how sovereign power, even within one case, takes a wide range of forms, always contingent, contested, and uneven across space and time.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Glossary
- Champassak Royal Titles
- Titles of People
- Introduction: Politics and Geography
- 1 The Origins of the House of Champassak: Founding Royal Sovereignty
- 2 The Last King of Champassak: The Ebb and Flow of Sovereign Power
- 3 Chao Khamsouk: Champassak Sovereignty Between the French and the Siamese
- 4 The Lost Champassak Royals in Cambodia: Working for Sovereignty
- 5 The House of Champassak in French Laos: Sovereignty Under Colonialism
- 6 The Champassak Royals in Thailand: Royal Sovereignty Under Royal Sovereignty
- 7 The House of Champassak in Laos During the Second Indochina War: Postcolonial Royal Sovereign Power
- 8 The Na Champassak Family and the Third Indochina War: Aleatory Sovereignty
- 9 The Na Champassak Pretenders and the Unknown Champassak Royals: Nominal Sovereignty
- Conclusion
- Appendix: Chao Nhouy’s Children Study in Saigon, Life in Chao Boun Oun's House in Vientiane, and Chao Heuane Nhing Sangvanekham
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index