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Author: Edward Kissi
Publisher: Lexington Books
Publishing Date: March 21, 2006
Paperback: 216 pages
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0739112635
ISBN-13: 978-0739112632
Format: Hardcover, Paperback
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Book Description
Revolution and Genocide in Ethiopia and Cambodia is the first comparative study of the Ethiopian and Cambodian revolutions of the early 1970s. One of the few comparative studies of genocide in the developing world, this book presents some of the key arguments in traditional genocide scholarship, but the book's author, Edward Kissi, takes a different position, arguing that the Cambodian genocide and the atrocious crimes in Ethiopia had very different motives.

Kissi's findings reveal that genocide was a tactic specifically chosen by Cambodia's Khmer Rouge to intentionally and systematically annihilate certain ethnic and religious groups, whereas Ethiopia's Dergue resorted to terror and political killing in the effort to retain power. Revolution and Genocide in Ethiopia and Cambodia demonstrates that the extent to which revolutionary states turn to policies of genocide depends greatly on how they acquire their power and what domestic and international opposition they face. This is an important and intriguing book for students of African and Asian history and those interested in the study of genocide.

Revolution and Genocide in Ethiopia and Cambodia

By Admin | Monday, December 26, 2011

Author: Gregor Mueller (Editor)
Publisher: Routledge
Publishing Date: May 25, 2006
Hardcover: 312 pages
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0415355621
ISBN-13: 978-0415355629
Format: Kindle Edition, Hardcover
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Book Description
Colonial Cambodia's "Bad Frenchmen" provides a captivating analysis of the gradual establishment of French colonialism in the late nineteenth century. Drawing on new materials from French, Vietnamese and Cambodian archives, it reconstructs a time during which France struggled to give meaning and substance to its Protectorate over Cambodia.

It traces the lives of failed colonists – most notably Thomas Caramen, who all constituted a challenge to the colonial enterprise by muddling its social, cultural and racial boundaries. In its consideration of the critical role played by these colonists, this compelling book shifts away from governor-generals, grand discourses and the simple view of colonialism as ‘colonizers’ versus ‘colonized’, to explore how things actually worked themselves out on the ground. It examines in particular the 'civilizing mission' and educational initiatives; the slow destruction of the indigenous justice system; the policing of sexual relations between colonisers and colonized; the theft of Cambodian land and taxes by the colonizing power; and the brutal repression of resistance wherever and whenever it appeared.

Overall, Muller reveals the crucial role played by indigenous middlemen and marginal Europeans in the rise of the colonial state, and tells the fascinating tale of a Frenchman who came to represent everything that the colonial state dreaded.

Colonial Cambodia's 'Bad Frenchmen': The rise of French rule and the life of Thomas Caraman, 1840-87 (Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia)

By Admin | Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Author: Loung Ung
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Publishing Date: April 4, 2006
Paperback: 288 pages
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0060856262
ISBN-13: 978-0060856267
Format: Kindle Edition, Hardcover, Paperback, Audio, CD, Audiobook, MP3 Audio, Unabridged, Audible Audio Edition, Unabridged
Series: P.S.
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Book Description
One of seven children of a high-ranking government official, Loung Ung lived a privileged life in the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh until the age of five. Then, in April 1975, Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge army stormed into the city, forcing Ung's family to flee and, eventually, to disperse. Loung was trained as a child soldier in a work camp for orphans, her siblings were sent to labor camps, and those who survived the horrors would not be reunited until the Khmer Rouge was destroyed.

Harrowing yet hopeful, Loung's powerful story is an unforgettable account of a family shaken and shattered, yet miraculously sustained by courage and love in the face of unspeakable brutality.

First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers

By Admin | Sunday, December 18, 2011

Author: Bernard P. Groslier
Publisher: Orchid Press
Publishing Date: November 15, 2006
Hardcover: 208 pages
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9745240532
ISBN-13: 978-9745240537
Format: Hardcover
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Book Description
This is the first English translation of an important study of the records of early Spanish and Portuguese missionaries and adventurers, which comprise one of the earliest surviving first hand accounts of the Khmers and of Angkor, and the sole records of Western visitors, four hundred years prior to the arrival of the French in Indo-

Angkor & Cambodia in the 16th Century: According to Portuguese and Spanish Sources

By Admin | Saturday, December 17, 2011

Author: Loung Ung
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Publishing Date: April 11, 2006
Paperback: 268 pages
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0060733950
ISBN-13: 978-0060733957
Format: Kindle Edition, Library Binding, Paperback
Series: P.S.
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Book Description
After enduring years of hunger, deprivation, and devastating loss at the hands of the Khmer Rouge, ten-year-old Loung Ung became the "lucky child," the sibling chosen to accompany her eldest brother to America while her one surviving sister and two brothers remained behind. In this poignant and elegiac memoir, Loung recalls her assimilation into an unfamiliar new culture while struggling to overcome dogged memories of violence and the deep scars of war. In alternating chapters, she gives voice to Chou, the beloved older sister whose life in war-torn Cambodia so easily could have been hers. Highlighting the harsh realities of chance and circumstance in times of war as well as in times of peace, Lucky Child is ultimately a testament to the resilience of the human spirit and to the salvaging strength of family bonds.

Lucky Child: A Daughter of Cambodia Reunites with the Sister She Left Behind

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Author: John Tully
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Publishing Date: September 1, 2006
Paperback: 288 pages
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1741147638
ISBN-13: 978-1741147636
Format: Kindle Edition, Paperback
Series: A Short History of Asia series
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Book Description
In this concise and compelling history, Cambodia’s past is described in vivid detail, from the richness of the Angkorean empire through the dark ages of the 18th and early-19th centuries, French colonialism, independence, the Vietnamese conflict, the Pol Pot regime, and its current incarnation as a troubled democracy. With energetic writing and passion for the subject, John Tully covers the full sweep of Cambodian history, explaining why this land of contrasts remains an interesting enigma to the international community. Detailing the depressing record of war, famine, and invasion that has threatened to destroy Cambodia, this discussion shows its survival to be a testament to the resilience of the human spirit.

A Short History of Cambodia: From Empire to Survival

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