Martin Stuart-Fox
Australian historian, professor, and author
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Martin Stuart-Fox is a retired Australian professor and foreign correspondent who writes about the history, politics and international relations of Southeast Asia, primarily Laos. After studying biological sciences at the University of Queensland, Martin Stuart-Fox worked as a marine biologist in Papua New Guinea, then taught science in Hong Kong. In 1963 he was employed by the U.S. Agency for International Development as an agricultural extension officer in Laos. There he began reporting for United Press International, initially as a stringer and then as a staff correspondent. In 1965 UPI assigned him to cover the war in Vietnam. In Saigon, he shared a house with half a dozen other young journalists and photographers, including Steve Northup, Simon Dring, Tim Page and Joe Galloway. At the end of 1966, he left Vietnam for France and over the next five years freelanced, traveled, and studied in several countries. In 1972, he was UPI correspondent in Dacca reporting on the birth of Bangladesh,
Martin Stuart-Fox's Published Works
Published Works
- A History of Laos (1997) (196)
- The political culture of corruption in the Lao PDR (2006) (85)
- Buddhist Kingdom, Marxist State: The Making of Modern Laos (1996) (65)
- A Short History of China and Southeast Asia: Tribute, Trade and Influence (2003) (64)
- The Lao Kingdom of Lan-Xang: Rise and Decline (1998) (57)
- Why Vietnam invaded Cambodia: Political culture and the causes of war (2002) (56)
- Politics and Reform in the Lao People's Democratic Republic (2005) (56)
- Laos: politics, economics and society (1988) (51)
- The French in Laos, 1887–1945 (1995) (44)
- Historical Dictionary Of Laos (1992) (36)
- The origins of causal cognition in early hominins (2015) (29)
- Laos: The Chinese Connection (2010) (29)
- Southeast Asia and China: The Role of History and Culture in Shaping Future Relations (2004) (29)
- Power and Political Culture in Cambodia (2013) (21)
- Evolutionary theory of history (1999) (21)
- Conflicting conceptions of the state: Siam, France and Vietnam in the late nineteenth century (2000) (17)
- Contemporary Laos: Studies in the politics and society of the Lao People's Democratic Republic (1984) (17)
- Politicization of the Buddhist Sangha in Laos (1982) (15)
- Apprentice Revolutionaries: The Communist Movement in Laos, 1930-1985. (1987) (15)
- The unit of replication in socio-cultural evolution (1986) (14)
- Philosophies of history: From enlightenment to postmodernity (2002) (13)
- On the Writing of Lao History: Continuities and Discontinuities (1993) (13)
- The Persistence of Political Culture in Laos and Cambodia (2008) (13)
- The Constitution of the Lao People's Democratic Republic (1991) (13)
- The twilight language : explorations in Buddhist meditation and symbolism (1989) (10)
- Laos: Politics in a Single-party State (2011) (10)
- Factors influencing relations between the communist parties of Thailand and Laos (1979) (9)
- Laos in 1988: In Pursuit of New Directions (1989) (9)
- Laos: Towards subregional integration (1995) (8)
- Marxism and Theravada Buddhism: The Legitimation of Political Authority in Laos* (1983) (8)
- CHINA AND SOUTHEAST ASIA (2001) (8)
- The murderous revolution : life and death in Pol Pot's Kampuchea (1986) (8)
- Laos: The Vietnamese connection (1980) (7)
- Jhāna and Buddhist Scholasticism (1989) (7)
- The Challenge for Lao Historiography (2006) (7)
- Laos in 1997: Into ASEAN (1998) (6)
- Rethinking the evolution of culture and cognitive structure (2015) (6)
- Festivals of Laos (2010) (6)
- Laos: From Buddhist kingdom to Marxist state (1999) (6)
- Symbolism in City Planning in Cambodia from Angkor to Phnom Penh (2011) (5)
- The Murderous Revolution (1985) (5)
- Historical and Cultural Constraints on Development in the Mekong Region (2010) (5)
- Politics and patronage in Laos (1986) (4)
- Laos in ASEAN: dilemmas of Development and Identity (1998) (4)
- Historiography, power and identity: History and political legitimization in Laos (2003) (4)
- The ‘three knowledges’ of Buddhism: Implications of Buddhadasa's interpretation of rebirth (1983) (4)
- Laos in 1985: Time to Take Stock (1986) (4)
- Book review: The One and the Many: Reading Isaiah Berlin. Edited by George Crawder and Henry Hardy (Amherst, NY: Premetheus Books, 2007) (2008) (4)
- Two Views of the History of Historiography and The Nature of History (2007) (4)
- Naga Cities of the Mekong: A Guide to the Temples, Legends and History of Laos (2006) (4)
- The Lao revolution: Leadership and policy differences (1977) (3)
- Laos at the crossroads (1991) (3)
- The changing world order (2008) (3)
- Foreign policy of the Lao People's Democratic Republic (1991) (3)
- The Year of the Tiger (1998) (3)
- The Twilight Language (1986) (3)
- Communism and the Cold War (2009) (3)
- Lao foreign policy: The view from Vientiane (1981) (3)
- The agony of Cambodia (1992) (2)
- Socialist construction and national security in Laos (1981) (2)
- The Dvaravati “Buddha on a Monster” Stelae: A Possible Interpretation (2002) (2)
- Response to Lou Nordstrom's review of "the twilight language: Explorations in buddhist meditation and symbolism" (1989) (2)
- Laos: a small state involved in neighbour's conflict (1981) (2)
- Lao Foreign Policy (1990) (2)
- Population diversity and rice in Laos (2006) (2)
- Metaphysics, method and politics: The political philosophy of R. G. Collingwood (2006) (2)
- Laos in 1981: Economic Prospects and Problems (1982) (2)
- Political Culture and Power in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic (2009) (2)
- The Lao revolution: Errors and achievements (1979) (1)
- Laos in China's anti-Vietnam strategy (1981) (1)
- City Planning of the Lao/Thai (2014) (1)
- Laos in the post-Kaysone era (1994) (1)
- Laos 1991: On the defensive (1992) (1)
- The A to Z of Laos (2010) (1)
- Politics in a Single-party State (2007) (1)
- National Defence and Internal Security in Laos (1982) (1)
- On Theory of History and Its Context of Discovery (1983) (1)
- The nature and causes of revolution in Asia (2000) (1)
- The kampuchean problem: Time for realism (1988) (1)
- Who was Maha Thevi (1993) (1)
- Reflections on the Lao revolution (1981) (1)
- Human rights in Laos (1994) (1)
- Resolving the Kampuchean Problem: The Case for an Alternative Regional Initiative (1982) (1)
- Tensions within the Thai insurgency (1979) (1)
- Lao Communist Revolution (2006) (1)
- Laos. Multidisciplinary perspectives on Lao studies . Edited by Karen L. Adams and Thomas John Hudak. Tempe, AZ: Southeast Asia Council, Center for Asian Research, Arizona State University, 2010. Pp. xxii, 429. Maps, Notes, Bibliography, Index. (2011) (1)
- The first years of communist rule in Laos: An overview (1986) (1)
- (Book Review) Cultural crisis and social memory: Modernity and identity in Thailand and Laos (2004) (0)
- Review of: A theory of modernity by Agnes Heller (2003) (0)
- Major Transitions in Human Evolutionary History (2022) (0)
- The Universe Unraveling: American Foreign Policy in Cold War Laos. By Seth Jacobs. (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2012. Pp. x, 312. $35.00.) (2013) (0)
- MERVYN BROWN: War in Shangri-la: a memoir of civil war in Laos. xix, 243 pp. London and New York: The Radcliffe Press, 2001. £24.50. (2002) (0)
- Laos: The first Lao five year plan (1981) (0)
- 1. CONSTRUCTING A SELECTIONIST PARADIGM (2011) (0)
- Review of " The Kingdom of Siam: The Art of Central Thailand, 1350-1800." Forrest McGill, (ed.) San Francisco, Asian Art Museum - Chong-Moon Lee Center for Asian Art and Culture, 2005 (2007) (0)
- Did the Buddha impact an esoteric teaching (1983) (0)
- Interactions with a Violent Past: Reading Post-Conflict Landscapes in Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam ed. by Vatthana Pholsena and Oliver Tappe (review) (2014) (0)
- Tibet's stubborn revival (1992) (0)
- Ing-Britt Trankell and Laura Summers (eds), Facets of Power and Its Limitations. Political Culture in Southeast Asia, Uppsala Studies in Cultural Anthropology 24, Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, Uppsala, 1998. (2000) (0)
- National interests and international dependency in Laos (1981) (0)
- Review of: J. W. Moses, Ways of knowing: Competing methodologies in social and political research (2007) (0)
- Mayoury and Pheuiphanh Ngaosrivathana and the construction of national identity in Laos (2008) (0)
- Review of Lao-Tai textiles: The textiles of Xam Nuea and Muang Phuan by P Cheesman (2006) (0)
- Review of Buddhism and ethnicity: Social organization of a Buddhist temple in Kelantan by M Y Ismail (2005) (0)
- Lao Studies in Australasia (1998) (0)
- Review of Michael A. Aung-Thwin, Myth and History in the Historiography of Early Burma: Paradigms, Primary sources and Prejudices (2001) (0)
- Khmer Buddhists respond to the challenges of modernity. Hansen, Anne Ruth. How to Behave: Buddhism and Modernity in Colonial Cambodia 1860-1930 (2008) (0)
- Kaysone Phomvihan and the search for Lao national unity (1991) (0)
- Vietnam in Laos: Hanoi's Model for Kampuchea (1987) (0)
- Laos in the 1980s (1982) (0)
- Notes on historical writing for all three worlds (1982) (0)
- Evolution, meaning and the humanities (1988) (0)
- The A to Z of Laos : The A to Z Guide Series, No. 211 (2010) (0)
- Review of: Western supremacy: Triumph of an idea? (2004) (0)
- The last century of Lao royalty: A documentary history, by Grant Evans (2010) (0)
- Australasian contributions to the historiography of Southeast Asia (2008) (0)
- Laos, The Asean (2009) (0)
- Review of Metaphysics, method and politics: The political Philosophy of R G Collingwood by J Connelly (2006) (0)
- Political patterns in Souteast Asia (1992) (0)
- The origins of causal cognition in early hominins (2014) (0)
- History and theory (2005) (0)
- Indochina to 1954 (1992) (0)
- Lao Buddhist Sangha (2002) (0)
- Recent French monographs on Indochina (1990) (0)
- History and the return of science (2005) (0)
- On the methodology of interpretation of Buddhist symbolism (1980) (0)
- The reign of King Suriyavongsa (2010) (0)
- Can History Be True? A Review Essay (1998) (0)
- City Planning in Cambodia (2015) (0)
- Towards Subregional Integration (2016) (0)
- The Twilight Language: Explorations in Buddhist symbolism and mediation (1986) (0)
- William J. Rust, Before the Quagmire: American Intervention in Laos 1954–1961Seth Jacobs, The Universe Unraveling: American Foreign Policy in Cold War Laos (2014) (0)
- Book Reviews : Peter Novick, That Noble Dream: The "Objectivity Question" and the American Historical Profession. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge and New York, 1988. Pp. xii, 648, $49.50 (cloth), $15.95 (paper (1991) (0)
- Conferences on conflict resolution in Kampuchea (1989) (0)
- Being and Becoming Kachin: Histories Beyond the State in the Borderworlds of Burma by Mandy Sadan (review) (2014) (0)
- Persoectiven fur Demoktratie in Laos (1993) (0)
- The future of history (1999) (0)
- Book review: Ronald Bruce St John, Revolution, Reform and Regionalism in Southeast Asia: Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam. London, Routledge, 2006, pp.xvi + 282 (2007) (0)
- The Lao Constitution of 1947/1949: Creating a Nation-State (2019) (0)
- Book review: Susan Conway, The Shan: Culture, Art and Crafts. Bangkok, River Books, 2006. pp. 212, 300 (2007) (0)
- Prospects for democracy in Laos (1993) (0)
- Serendipity, or discovering Lao History (2007) (0)
- Political outlook 2000-2001: Laos (2000) (0)
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