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On the borders of state power : frontiers in the greater Mekong sub-region / edited by Martin Gainsborough.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Routledge studies in the modern history of Asia (2005) ; 51.
- Routledge studies in the modern history of Asia ; 51
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Politics and government.
- Boundaries.
- Mekong River Region--Boundaries.
- Mekong River Region.
- Mekong River Region--Politics and government.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 114 pages : maps ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2009.
- Contents:
- Introduction : borders, globalisation and the state in historical context / Martin Gainsborough
- Unhealthy air of the mountains : kinh and ethnic minority rule on the Sino-Vietnamese frontier from the fifteenth to the twentieth century / Emmanuel Poisson
- Post-Taiping fallout : Nguyen-Qing collaboration in the pursuit of bandits on the border / Bradley C. Davis
- The struggle to control land grabbing : state formation on the Central Highlands frontier under the first Republic of Vietnam (1954-63) / Stan B-H Tan
- 'Community development' on the Sino-Burmese border : villagers, Oxfam and the Chinese state / Miwa Hirono
- The politics of 'opening up' : female traders on the borderlands of Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Burma (Myanmar) / Kyoko Kusakabe
- Dreaming beyond borders : the Thai/Lao borderlands and the mobility of the marginal / Holly High
- Conclusion : are the Mekong frontiers sites of exception? / Andrew Walker.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Louis A. Duhring Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780415414654
- 9780203934708
- 0415414652
- 0203934709
- OCLC:
- 229445989
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