Ryan Wolfson-Ford
Biographic Data
| ID | 5071583 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ryan Wolfson-Ford |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ryan |
| FAMILY NAME | Wolfson-Ford |
| SIGNATURE | WOLFSON-FORD R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA; Mercy College – NYC, USA |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6461-6221 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Parting Ways
This paper examines civil wars during the First Indochina War in Laos (1945–54). The first civil war emerged between those fighting for Lao independence, the Issara, and those continuing to defend French colonial rule after World War II, the loyalists. The second civil war broke out as the first one ended in late 1949. It was fought between the Royal Lao Government (RLG) and the Pathet Lao. This new civil war was fought over the question of wheth…
Sibling Rivalry
Strangers in the hills
Lao nationalism is usually thought to have emerged only at the end of the French colonial period during the Lao Renovation Movement (1941–1945), placing its origins much later than elsewhere in Southeast Asia. Yet when surveying Lao palm leaf manuscripts, it is evident that Lao scribes were writing in uniquely modern ways about themselves and others as early as 1890, three years prior to French colonization. They wrote in response to recent uphea…
Sons of Khun Bulom
The opening of the nithan khun bulom genre of texts is usually regarded as a mythic account of Lao history. But the process by which Lao historians themselves began to perceive this was an important nationalist project of the elite during the Royal Lao Government (RLG) period. As early as the 1920s, Lao authors began rewriting the old folktales into a new, modern, scientific account of the past, the ‘birth of the Lao race’. By studying elite writ…
Sons of Khun Bulom
The opening of the nithan khun bulom genre of texts is usually regarded as a mythic account of Lao history. But the process by which Lao historians themselves began to perceive this was an important nationalist project of the elite during the Royal Lao Government (RLG) period. As early as the 1920s, Lao authors began rewriting the old folktales into a new, modern, scientific account of the past, the ‘birth of the Lao race’. By studying elite writ…
Strangers in the hills
Lao nationalism is usually thought to have emerged only at the end of the French colonial period during the Lao Renovation Movement (1941–1945), placing its origins much later than elsewhere in Southeast Asia. Yet when surveying Lao palm leaf manuscripts, it is evident that Lao scribes were writing in uniquely modern ways about themselves and others as early as 1890, three years prior to French colonization. They wrote in response to recent uphea…
Sons of Khun Bulom
The opening of the nithan khun bulom genre of texts is usually regarded as a mythic account of Lao history. But the process by which Lao historians themselves began to perceive this was an important nationalist project of the elite during the Royal Lao Government (RLG) period. As early as the 1920s, Lao authors began rewriting the old folktales into a new, modern, scientific account of the past, the ‘birth of the Lao race’. By studying elite writ…
Strangers in the hills
Lao nationalism is usually thought to have emerged only at the end of the French colonial period during the Lao Renovation Movement (1941–1945), placing its origins much later than elsewhere in Southeast Asia. Yet when surveying Lao palm leaf manuscripts, it is evident that Lao scribes were writing in uniquely modern ways about themselves and others as early as 1890, three years prior to French colonization. They wrote in response to recent uphea…
Sibling Rivalry
Parting Ways
This paper examines civil wars during the First Indochina War in Laos (1945–54). The first civil war emerged between those fighting for Lao independence, the Issara, and those continuing to defend French colonial rule after World War II, the loyalists. The second civil war broke out as the first one ended in late 1949. It was fought between the Royal Lao Government (RLG) and the Pathet Lao. This new civil war was fought over the question of wheth…
Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies (4 works) · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies (4 works) · History (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Cambodian History and Society (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Genealogy (2 works)