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Title: The kingdom of Laos: an edited reprint of the 1759 Universal History
Date: 2002
Source: Breaking new ground in Lao history: essays on the seventh to twentieth centuries
Place of Publication: Chiang Mai
Publisher: Silkworm Books
Abstract: The text reproduced here was first published in an encyclopaedic work titled The Modern Part of an Universal History, From the Earliest Account of Time. Compiled from Original Writers. By the Authors of the Antient Part. The text appeared as chapter 7 (The Kingdom of Lawhos, or Laos) of book 11 (Description of the Countries Contained in the Farther Peninsula of India), in volume 7 (Modern History: Being a continuation of the Universal History). This series of volumes was published in London in 1759 for S. Richardson, T. Osborne, C. Hitch, A. Millar, John Rivington, S. Crowder, P. Davey, B. Law, T. Longman, and C. Ware.
Date Created: 3/24/2004
Editors: Mayoury Ngaosrivathana
Breazeale, Kennon
Page Start: 169
Page End: 238