Laos

Arthur J. Dommen is an agricultural economist with the Africa and Middle East Branch, International Economics Division, Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture. He was formerly bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times in Tokyo, New Delhi, and Saigon and for United Press International in Saigon and Hong Kong, as well as a Paris correspondent covering the Vietnam negotiations in 1968 and 1969.

• Preface -- Land and People -- The Precolonial Period (to 1893) -- The Colonial Period and the First Geneva Conference (1893–1954) -- Independence to the Second Geneva Conference (1954–1962) -- The Final Years of the Kingdom (1962–1975) -- Lao People's Democratic Republic (1975-Present) -- Foreign Relations -- The Economy -- Culture and Society -- Prospects