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 Ba Phnom Bangkok Bardez Battambang Bayon BEFEO Ben Kiernan brahmans Buddhist Cambodian elite Cambodian history Cambodian king Cambodian society capital ceremony Cham Chan Chandler chaovay sruk Chapter China Chinese Chou chronicle Claude Jacques Coedes colonial Communist cult David Democratic Kampuchea DNTL Duang early forces foreign French officials Funan Groslier hundred important independence Indian Indochina inscriptions Issarak Jayavarman VII Khmer Kiernan king's kingdom kingship Kompong Laos 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 prince probably Rama Reamker rebellion regime region reign résident revolution rice royal Saigon Sanskrit Siam Sihanouk Sisowath slaves Son Ngoc Thanh Southeast Asia status Suryavarman taxes temple Thai Thailand Theravada thousand trade troops Udong Vietnam Vietnamese villages Yasodharapura