A History Of Cambodia: Second EditionAvalon Publishing, 1992 M04 19 - 287 pages This clear and concise volume provides a timely overview of Cambodia, a small but increasingly visible Southeast Asian nation. Hailed by the Journal of Asian Studies as an “original contribution, superior to any other existing work,” the first edition ended in 1953 with Cambodia's independence from France; the second carries the narrative forward to the present. In the new material, Chandler focuses especially on the unstable but influential career of Prince Norodom Sihanouk, the bloody reign of Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge, and the relative calm that followed the Vietnamese invasion of 1979. This comprehensive general description and analysis of Cambodia will illuminate—for specialists and general readers alike—the history and contemporary politics of a country long misunderstood. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The Beginnings of Cambodian History | 9 |
Kingship and Society at Angkor | 29 |
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Angkor Wat Angkorean Asian Ayudhya Bangkok Bardez bas-reliefs Battambang Bayon BEFEO Ben Kiernan brahmans Buddha Buddhist Cambodian elite Cambodian history Cambodian king Cambodian society capital ceremony Cham Champa Chan Chandler chaovay sruk Chapter China Chinese Chou chronicle Coedes colonial Communist cult Democratic Kampuchea DNTL Duang early forces foreign French officials Funan Groslier hundred important independence Indian Indochina inscriptions Jayavarman VII Khmer Kiernan king's kingdom kingship Kompong Laos later leaders Lon Nol Mekong Michael Vickery military Minh Mang monarch monks Ngoc Thanh nineteenth century Norodom okya palace party patrons peasants perhaps period Phnom Penh Pol Pot policies political population Preah Khan prince probably Rama Reamker rebellion regime reign religious résident rice royal Saigon Sanskrit Siam Sihanouk Sisowath Siva slaves Son Ngoc Thanh Southeast Asia status Suryavarman temple temple-mountain Thai Thailand Theravada thousand troops Udong Vietnam Vietnamese villages Yasodharapura Yasovarman