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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: 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

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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: 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

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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
Format: Kindle Edition, Hardcover, Paperback
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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: 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: 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: Ben Kiernan
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publishing Date: 3rd Edition, August 19, 2008
Paperback: 544 pages
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0300144342
ISBN-13: 978-0300144345
Format: Paperback
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Book Description
The Khmer Rouge revolution turned Cambodia into grisly killing fields, as the Pol Pot regime murdered or starved to death a million and a half of Cambodia's eight million inhabitants. This book - the first comprehensive study of the Pol Pot regime - describes the violent origins, social context, and course of the revolution, providing a new answer to the question of why a group of Cambodian intellectuals imposed genocide on their own country.

The Pol Pot Regime: Race, Power, and Genocide in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, 1975-79

By Admin | Sunday, December 18, 2011

Author: Karen J. Coates
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Publishing Date: March 2005
Paperback: 392 pages
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0786420510
ISBN-13: 978-0786420513
Format: Kindle Edition, Paperback
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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

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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Author: David Chandler
Publisher: Westview Press
Publishing Date: 4th Edition, July 31, 2007
Paperback: 384 pages
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0813343631
ISBN-13: 978-1578566969
Format: Hardcover, Paperback
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Book Description
In this clear and concise volume, author David Chandler provides a timely overview of Cambodia, a small but increasingly visible Southeast Asian nation. Praised by the Journal of Asian Studies as an “original contribution, superior to any other existing work,” this acclaimed text has now been completely revised and updated to include material examining the early history of Cambodia, whose famous Angkorean ruins now attract more than one million tourists each year, the death of Pol Pot, and the revolution and final collapse of the Khmer Rouge. The fourth edition reflects recent research by major scholars as well as Chandler’s long immersion in the subject and contains an entirely new section on the challenges facing Cambodia today, including an analysis of the current state of politics and sociology and the increasing pressures of globalization. This comprehensive overview of Cambodia will illuminate, for undergraduate students as well as general readers, the history and contemporary politics of a country long misunderstood.

A History of Cambodia

By Admin | Friday, December 16, 2011

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