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Author: Michael D. Coe
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Publishing Date: February 17, 2005
Paperback: 240 pages
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0500284423
ISBN-13: 978-0500284421
Format: Hardcover, Paperback
Series: Ancient Peoples and Places
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Angkor and the Khmer Civilization (Ancient Peoples and Places)

By Admin | Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Author: Brian Fawcett
Publisher: Touchstone
Publishing Date: 1st Collier Books Edition, October 25, 1989
Paperback: 224 pages
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0020321503
ISBN-13: 978-0020321507
Format: Hardcover, Paperback,
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Cambodia: A Book For People Who Find Television Too Slow

By Admin | Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Author: John A. Tully
Publisher: University Press Of America
Publishing Date: January 20, 2003
Paperback: 592 pages
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0761824316
ISBN-13: 978-0761824312
Format: Paperback
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Book Description
Based on largely unexploited archival sources, France on the Mekong is the first comprehensive history of the colonial era in Cambodia. The book takes as its point of departure Marx's early appraisal of colonialism's "double mission" in Asia. Tully argues that King Norodom's decision to invite in the French in 1863 was a "Faustian bargain" for Cambodia. While the Protectorate did ensure the continued existence of the Cambodian state, and did much to preserve Cambodia's crumbling cultural legacy, the downside was that authoritarian rule was entrenched rather than weakened, and that the country was left seriously underdeveloped when the French left in 1953. Colonialism disturbed the foundations of traditional society, but did not replace them. This was to have disastrous consequences for post-colonial Cambodia-- a point that the author develops at the end of the book.

France on the Mekong: A History of the Protectorate in Cambodia, 1863-1953

By Admin | Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Author: James A. Tyner
Publisher: Ashgate
Publishing Date: July 29, 2008
Hardcover: 228 pages
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0754670961
ISBN-13: 978-0754670964
Format: Hardcover
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Book Description
Between 1975 and 1978, the Khmer Rouge carried out genocide in Cambodia unparalleled in modern history. Approximately 2 million died - almost one quarter of the population. Taking an explicitly geographical approach, and a starting point that 'geo-graphy' concerns the writing of space, this book suggests that the Khmer Rouge's activities not only led to genocide, but terracide - the erasure of space.In the Cambodia of 1975, the landscape would reveal vestiges of an indigenous precolonial Khmer society, a French colonialism and American intervention. The Khmer Rouge, however, were not content with retaining the past inscriptions of previous modes of production and spatial practices. Instead, they attempted to erase time and space to create their own utopian vision of a communal society. The Khmer Rouge's erasing and reshaping of space was only a part of a consistent ignorance, neglect and sacrifice of Cambodia and its people - each previous foreign influence also is seen to have attempted not only to rewrite history, but reproduce geography.While focussing on Cambodia, the book provides a clearer geographic understanding to genocide in general and insights into the importance of spatial factors in geopolitical conflict.

The Killing of Cambodia: Geography, Genocide and the Unmaking of Space

By Admin | Tuesday, December 27, 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: Ben Kiernan
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publishing Date: 2nd Edition, August 11, 2004
Paperback: 488 pages
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0300102623
ISBN-13: 978-0300102628
Format: Hardcover, Paperback
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Book Description
How did Pol Pot, a tyrant comparable to Hitler and Stalin in his brutality and contempt for human life, rise to power? This authoritative book explores what happened in Cambodia from 1930 to 1975, tracing the origins and trajectory of the Cambodian Communist movement and setting the ascension of Pol Pot's genocidal regime in the context of the conflict between colonialism and nationalism. A new preface bring this edition up to date.

How Pol Pot Came to Power: Colonialism, Nationalism, and Communism in Cambodia, 1930-1975

By Admin | Saturday, December 17, 2011

Author: Elizabeth Becker
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Publishing Date: Revised Edition, November 10, 1998
Paperback: 632 pages
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1891620002
ISBN-13: 978-1891620003
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Book Description
Award-winning journalist Elizabeth Becker started covering Cambodia in 1973 for The Washington Post, when the country was perceived as little more than a footnote to the Vietnam War. Then, with the rise of the Khmer Rouge in 1975 came the closing of the border and a systematic reorganization of Cambodian society. Everyone was sent from the towns and cities to the countryside, where they were forced to labor endlessly in the fields. The intelligentsia were brutally exterminated, and torture, terror, and death became routine. Ultimately, almost two million people—nearly a quarter of the population—were killed in what was one of this century's worst crimes against humanity.When the War Was Over is Elizabeth Becker's masterful account of the Cambodian nightmare. Encompassing the era of French colonialism and the revival of Cambodian nationalism; 1950s Paris, where Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot received his political education; the killing fields of Cambodia; government chambers in Washington, Paris, Moscow, Beijing, Hanoi, and Phnom Penh; and the death of Pol Pot in 1998; this is a book of epic vision and staggering power. Merging original historical research with the many voices of those who lived through the times and exclusive interviews with every Cambodian leader of the past quarter century, When the War Was Over illuminates the darkness of Cambodia with the intensity of a bolt of lightning.

When The War Was Over: Cambodia And The Khmer Rouge Revolution

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