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Author: Nawuth Keat, Martha Kendall
Publisher: National Geographic Children's Books
Publishing Date: 1st Edition, October 13, 2009
Hardcover: 112 pages
Language: English
ISBN-10: 142630515X
ISBN-13: 978-1426305153
Format: Kindle Edition, Hardcover
Reading level: Ages 12 and up
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Alive in the Killing Fields: Surviving the Khmer Rouge Genocide

By Admin | Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Author: Henry Kamm
Publisher: Arcade Publishing
Publishing Date: 1st Edition, April 18, 2011
Paperback: 288 pages
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1611451264
ISBN-13: 978-1611451269
Format: Hardcover, Paperback
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Cambodia: Report From a Stricken Land

By Admin | Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Author: Haing Ngor
Publisher: Basic Books
Publishing Date: December 26, 2003
Paperback: 528 pages
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0786713151
ISBN-13: 978-0786713158
Format: Hardcover, Paperback, Audio, Cassette, Audiobook, Unabridged
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Survival in the Killing Fields

By Admin | Monday, February 13, 2012

Author: Steven Yang
Publisher: Full Moon Books
Publishing Date: 1st Edition, March 20, 2005
Mass Market Paperback: 430 pages
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9749270509
ISBN-13: 978-9749270509
Format: Kindle Edition, Paperback
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Butterfly: An Erotic Odyssey - Thailand, Cambodia, Philippines (Sex in Southeast Asia)

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Author: Graham Saunders
Publisher: Kuperard
Publishing Date: October 7, 2008
Paperback: 168 pages
Language: English
ISBN-10: 185733471X
ISBN-13: 978-1857334715
Format: Kindle Edition, Paperback
Series: Culture Smart!
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Book Description
Culture Smart! provides essential information on attitudes, beliefs and behavior in different countries, ensuring that you arrive at your destination aware of basic manners, common courtesies, and sensitive issues. These concise guides tell you what to expect, how to behave, and how to establish a rapport with your hosts. This inside knowledge will enable you to steer clear of embarrassing gaffes and mistakes, feel confident in unfamiliar situations, and develop trust, friendships, and successful business relationships.

Culture Smart! offers illuminating insights into the culture and society of a particular country. It will help you to turn your visit-whether on business or for pleasure-into a memorable and enriching experience. Contents include:

* customs, values, and traditions
* historical, religious, and political background
* life at home
* leisure, social, and cultural life
* eating and drinking
* dos, don'ts, and taboos
* business practices
* communication, spoken and unspoken

"Culture Smart has come to the rescue of hapless travellers." Sunday Times Travel
"... the perfect introduction to the weird, wonderful and downright odd quirks and customs of various countries." Global Travel
"...full of fascinating-as well as common-sense-tips to help you avoid embarrassing faux pas." Observer
"...as useful as they are entertaining." Easyjet Magazine
"...offer glimpses into the psyche of a faraway world." New York Times

Cambodia - Culture Smart!: the essential guide to customs & culture

By Admin | Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Author: Michelle Lord
Publisher: Lee & Low Books
Publishing Date: March 30, 2008
Hardcover: 32 pages
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1600601391
ISBN-13: 978-1600601392
Format: Hardcover
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Book Description
When Arn was a young boy in Cambodia, his days were filled with love, laughter, and the sweet sounds of music. That all changed suddenly in 1975 when Arn's village was invaded by Khmer Rouge soldiers and his family was torn apart.

Nine-year-old Arn was taken to a children's work camp, where he labored long hours in the rice fields under the glaring eyes of threatening soldiers. Overworked, underfed, and in constant fear for his life, Arn had to find a way to survive. When guards asked for volunteers to play music one day, Arn bravely raised his hand-taking a chance that would change the course of his life.

A Song for Cambodia is the inspirational true story of Arn Chorn-Pond. His heartfelt music created beauty in a time of darkness and turned tragedy into healing.

A Song for Cambodia

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Author: Chanrithy Him
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Publishing Date: April 2001
Paperback: 330 pages
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0393322106
ISBN-13: 978-0393322101
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Chanrithy Him felt compelled to tell of surviving life under the Khmer Rouge in a way "worthy of the suffering which I endured as a child."
In the Cambodian proverb, "when broken glass floats" is the time when evil triumphs over good. That time began in 1975, when the Khmer Rouge took power in Cambodia and the Him family began their trek through the hell of the "killing fields." In a mesmerizing story, Him vividly recounts a Cambodia where rudimentary labor camps are the norm and technology, such as cars and electricity, no longer exists. Death becomes a companion at the camps, along with illness. Yet through the terror, Chanrithy's family remains loyal to one another despite the Khmer Rouge's demand of loyalty only to itself. Moments of inexpressible sacrifice and love lead them to bring what little food they have to the others, even at the risk of their own lives. In 1979, "broken glass" finally sinks. From a family of twelve, only five of the Him children survive. Sponsored by an uncle in Oregon, they begin their new lives in a land that promises welcome to those starved for freedom. 15 black and whtie illustrations

When Broken Glass Floats: Growing Up Under the Khmer Rouge

By Admin | Saturday, January 14, 2012

Author: William Shawcross
Publisher: Cooper Square Press
Publishing Date: Revised Edition, August 14, 2002
Paperback: 544 pages
Language: English
ISBN-10: 081541224X
ISBN-13: 978-0815412243
Format: Hardcover, Paperback
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Book Description
Although there are many books and films dealing with the Vietnam War, Sideshow tells the truth about America's secret and illegal war with Cambodia from 1969 to 1973. William Shawcross interviewed hundreds of people of all nationalities, including cabinet ministers, military men, and civil servants, and extensively researched U.S. Government documents. This full-scale investigation—with material new to this edition—exposes how Kissinger and Nixon treated Cambodia as a sideshow. Although the president and his assistant claimed that a secret bombing campaign in Cambodia was necessary to eliminate North Vietnamese soldiers who were attacking American troops across the border, Shawcross maintains that the bombings only spread the conflict, but led to the rise of the Khmer Rouge and the subsequent massacre of a third of Cambodia's population.

Sideshow: Kissinger, Nixon, and the Destruction of Cambodia

By Admin | Thursday, December 29, 2011

Author: Arthur J. Dommen
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publishing Date: December 15, 2001
Hardcover: 1168 pages
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0253338549
ISBN-13: 978-0253338549
Format: Hardcover
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Book Description
"Dommen's book promises to be the definitive political history of Indochina during the Franco-American era." -- William M. Leary,
E. Merton Coulter Professor of History, University of Georgia

This magisterial study by Arthur J. Dommen sets the Indochina wars 'French and American' in perspective as no book that has come before. He summarizes the history of the peninsula from the Vietnamese War of Independence from China in 930-39 through the first French military actions in 1858, when the struggle of the peoples of Indochina with Western powers began.

Dommen details the crucial episodes in the colonization of Indochina by the French and the indigenous reaction to it. The struggle for national sovereignty reached an acute state at the end of World War II, when independent governments rapidly assumed power in Vietnam and Cambodia. When the French returned, the struggle became one of open warfare, with Nationalists and Communists gripped in a contest for ascendancy in Vietnam, while the rulers of Cambodia and Laos sought to obtain independence by negotiation.

The withdrawal of the French after their defeat at Dien Bien Phu brought the Indochinese face-to-face, whether as friends or as enemies, with the Americans. In spite of an armistice in 1954, the war between Hanoi and Saigon resumed as each enlisted the help of foreign allies, which led to the renewed loss of sovereignty as a result of alliances and an increasingly heavy loss of lives. Meticulous and detailed, Dommen's telling of this complicated story is always judicious. Nevertheless, many people will find his analysis of the Diem coup a disturbing account of American plotting and murder.

The Indochinese Experience of the French and the Americans: Nationalism and Communism in Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam

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Author: Justin Corfield
Publisher: Greenwood
Publishing Date: October 13, 2009
Hardcover: 165 pages
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0313357226
ISBN-13: 978-0313357220
Format: Hardcover
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Book Description
Includes narrative histories that provide a chronological examination of the political, cultural, philosophical, social, and religious continuities in each nation's long rich history.

The History of Cambodia (The Greenwood Histories of the Modern Nations)

By Admin | Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Author: Michael H. Hunt (Editor)
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Publishing Date: January 21, 2010
Paperback: 256 pages
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0807859915
ISBN-13: 978-0807859919
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Book Description
An essential new resource for students and teachers of the Vietnam War, this concise collection of primary sources opens a valuable window on an extraordinarily complex conflict.

The materials gathered here, from both the American and Vietnamese sides, remind readers that the conflict touched the lives of many people in a wide range of social and political situations and spanned a good deal more time than the decade of direct U.S. combat. Indeed, the U.S. war was but one phase in a string of conflicts that varied significantly in character and geography. Michael Hunt brings together the views of the conflict's disparate players--from Communist leaders, Vietnamese peasants, Saigon loyalists, and North Vietnamese soldiers to U.S. policymakers, soldiers, and critics of the war. By allowing the participants to speak, this volume encourages readers to formulate their own historically grounded understanding of a still controversial struggle.

A Vietnam War Reader: A Documentary History from American and Vietnamese Perspectives

By Admin | Tuesday, December 27, 2011

Author: Joanna Catherine Scott
Publisher: Mcfarland
Publishing Date: Reprint Edition, August 18, 2011
Paperback: 326 pages
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0786467401
ISBN-13: 978-0786467402
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Book Description
This poignant collection of oral histories tells the stories of nine Laotians, four Cambodians and nine Vietnamese: what their lives were like before 1975, what happened after the Communist takeover that made them decide to flee their native countries, and how they escaped. The storytellers (housewife, Amerasian child, schoolteacher, government clerk, military officer, security agent, Buddhist monk, artist) create a broad and moving picture of the new realities of contemporary Indochina.

Indochina's Refugees: Oral Histories from Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam

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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

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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: Peter Maguire
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publishing Date: 2nd Edition, March 23, 2005
Hardcover: 280 pages
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0231120524
ISBN-13: 978-0231120524
Format: Paperback, Hardcover
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Book Description
The Khmer Rouge regime took control of Cambodia by force of arms, then committed the most brazen crimes since the Third Reich: at least 1.5 million people murdered between 1975 and 1979. Yet no individuals were ever tried or punished. This book is the story of Peter Maguire's effort to learn how Cambodia's "culture of impunity" developed, why it persists, and the failures of the "international community" to confront the Cambodian genocide. Written from a personal and historical perspective, Facing Death in Cambodia recounts Maguire's growing anguish over the gap between theories of universal justice and political realities.

Maguire documents the atrocities and the aftermath through personal interviews with victims and perpetrators, discussions with international and NGO officials, journalistic accounts, and government sources gathered during a ten-year odyssey in search of answers. The book includes a selection of haunting pictures from among the thousands taken at the now infamous Tuol Sleng prison (also referred to as S-21), through which at least 14,000 men, women, and children passed -- and from which fewer than a dozen emerged alive.

What he discovered raises troubling questions: Was the Cambodian genocide a preview of the genocidal civil wars that would follow in the wake of the Cold War? Is international justice an attainable idea or a fiction superimposed over an unbearably dark reality? Did issues of political expediency allow Cambodian leaders to escape prosecution?The Khmer Rouge violated the Nuremberg Principles, the United Nations Charter, the laws of war, and the UN Genocide Convention. Yet in the decade after the regime's collapse, the perpetrators were rescued and rehabilitated-even rewarded-by China, Thailand, the United States, and the UN. According to Peter Maguire, Cambodia holds the key to understanding why recent UN interventions throughout the world have failed to prevent atrocities and to enforce treaties.

Facing Death in Cambodia

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Author: Joakim Ojendal (Editor), Mona Lilja (Editor)
Publisher: Nordic Inst of Asian Studies
Publishing Date: October 31, 2009
Paperback: 320 pages
Language: English
ISBN-10: 8776940438
ISBN-13: 978-8776940430
Format: Paperback
Series: Democracy in Asia
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Book Description
The peace agreement, major reconstruction efforts and UN-supervised elections that followed Cambodia's dark period of civil war and genocide have not brought the democracy and reconstruction that was hoped for. Political stability has emerged but seemingly only at the expense of democracy. Moreover, reconstruction efforts appear to be at odds with processes of liberal democratization. This volume (written by a broad mix of Khmer and non-Khmer researchers) is the first study to assess the post-conflict democratization and reconstruction process in Cambodia in a systematic and in-depth empirical way. In going beyond a one-dimensional view of democracy, the full complexity of this process is illuminated and an assessment is made about the viability of such post-conflict strategies elsewhere round the globe.

Beyond Democracy in Cambodia: Political Reconstruction in a Post-Conflict Society

By Admin | Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Author: Justin Corfield, Laura Summers
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Publishing Date: December 17, 2002
Hardcover: 560 pages
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0810845245
ISBN-13: 978-0810845244
Format: Hardcover
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Book Description
Over many centuries, and especially during the last century, Cambodia has experienced radical, even tumultuous changes in its political system and social order.

Chronicling this country's evolution from absolute monarchy in the pre-colonial era up to the semi-democracy of today, this dictionary focuses on the personalities, constitutional dynamics, and major economic developments of the recent Sihanouk, Lon Nol, Pol Pot and Hun Sen administrations.

Recognizing that considerable research remains to be done on Cambodia's political history and leaders, this reference work makes a large contribution to Cambodia and prominent Cambodians offering biographical details on the rulers, leaders, and opinion-makers from the time of Jayavarman II to Hun Sen. It also details key events and recent political developments and reveals unexpected continuities and discontinuities in elite composition and national ideological outlooks.

Historical Dictionary of Cambodia (Historical Dictionaries of Asia, Oceania, and the Middle East)

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Author: Arnold R. Isaacs
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Publishing Date: New Ed edition, December 30, 1998
Paperback: 576 pages
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0801861071
ISBN-13: 978-0801861079
Format: Hardcover, Paperback
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A gripping account of one of the century's most harrowing human catastrophes—the fall of South Vietnam— Without Honor captures the tragedy and the irony of the Vietnam War's last days and examines the consequences of the American military and political decisions that had sustained the war effort for a generation only to lead to the worst foreign policy failure in the nation's history. Arnold Isaacs, who spent the final years of the war in Vietnam as a correspondent for the Baltimore Sun, describes his firsthand observations of the collapse of Cambodia and South Vietnam—from the 1973 Paris peace agreement to the American evacuation of Saigon and its aftermath—with heartbreaking detail, from the devastated battlefields and villages to the boats filled with terrified refugees. He also provides an historical record of unparalleled accuracy and depth about the strategic decisions made during the war's end game and the intelligence failure that led Americans and their Southeast Asian allies to underestimate the strength and perseverance of the enemy. Drawing on previously classified military documents, field reports from American advisors, eyewitness accounts by soldiers and civilians, and North Vietnamese propaganda broadcasts, Isaacs offers a compelling and compassionate portrait of the impact of America's "Vietnamization" of the conflict and a bracing indictment of political and military leaders in the United States and both Vietnams for the massive human suffering that accompanied the end of the war.

Without Honor: Defeat in Vietnam and Cambodia

By Admin | Sunday, December 18, 2011

Author: Alexander Laban Hinton, Robert Jay Lifton
Publisher: University of California Press
Publishing Date: 1st Edition, December 6, 2004
Paperback: 382 pages
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0520241797
ISBN-13: 978-0520241794
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Series: California Series in Public Anthropology
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Book Description
Of all the horrors human beings perpetrate, genocide stands near the top of the list. Its toll is staggering: well over 100 million dead worldwide. Why Did They Kill? is one of the first anthropological attempts to analyze the origins of genocide. In it, Alexander Hinton focuses on the devastation that took place in Cambodia from April 1975 to January 1979 under the Khmer Rouge in order to explore why mass murder happens and what motivates perpetrators to kill. Basing his analysis on years of investigative work in Cambodia, Hinton finds parallels between the Khmer Rouge and the Nazi regimes. Policies in Cambodia resulted in the deaths of over 1.7 million of that country's 8 million inhabitants--almost a quarter of the population--who perished from starvation, overwork, illness, malnutrition, and execution. Hinton considers this violence in light of a number of dynamics, including the ways in which difference is manufactured, how identity and meaning are constructed, and how emotionally resonant forms of cultural knowledge are incorporated into genocidal ideologies.

Why Did They Kill?: Cambodia in the Shadow of Genocide

By Admin | Saturday, December 17, 2011

Author: Karen J. Coates
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Publishing Date: March 2005
Paperback: 392 pages
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0786420510
ISBN-13: 978-0786420513
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Book Description
Cambodia has never recovered from its Khmer Rouge past. The genocidal regime of 1975–1979 and the following two decades of civil war ripped the country apart. This work examines Cambodia in the aftermath, focusing on Khmer people of all walks of life and examining through their eyes key facets of Cambodian society, including the ancient Angkor legacy, relations with neighboring countries (particularly the strained ones with the Vietnamese), emerging democracy, psychology, violence, health, family, poverty, the environment, and the nation’s future.

Along with print sources, research is drawn from hundreds of interviews with Cambodians, including farmers, royalty, beggars, teachers, monks, orphanage heads, politicians, and non-native experts on Cambodia. Dozens of exquisite photographs of Cambodian people and places illustrate the work, which concludes with a glossary of Cambodian words, people, places and names, and an appendix of organizations providing aid to Cambodia.

Cambodia Now: Life In the Wake of War

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