A History of Cambodia

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Routledge, 2018 M05 4 - 384 pages

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.

 

Contents

1 INTRODUCTION
1
2 THE BEGINNINGS OF CAMBODIAN HISTORY
13
3 KINGSHIP AND SOCIETY AT ANGKOR
35
4 JAYAVARMAN VII AND THE CRISIS OF THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY
65
5 CAMBODIA AFTER ANGKOR
91
6 STATE SOCIETY AND FOREIGN RELATIONS 17941848
119
7 THE CRISIS OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
141
8 THE EARLY STAGES OF THE FRENCH PROTECTORATE
167
10 GAINING INDEPENDENCE
211
11 FROM INDEPENDENCE TO CIVIL WAR
233
12 REVOLUTION IN CAMBODIA
255
13 CAMBODIA SINCE 1979
277
Notes
301
Bibliographic Essay
339
Index
351
Copyright

9 CAMBODIAS RESPONSE TO FRANCE 191645
187

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