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Facing the Cambodian Past: Selected Essays, 1971-1994
David Chandler
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Description for Facing the Cambodian Past: Selected Essays, 1971-1994
Paperback. Num Pages: 340 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1F; GTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 316 x 23. Weight in Grams: 396.
A leading student of Cambodia’s history considers a range of themes and problems including the leper-king myth at Angkor, post-Angkorean normative poems, nineteenth century perceptions of the moral order, and royally sponsored human sacrifices in rural Cambodia in the 1870s. Other essays deal with aspects of the colonial period and the revolutionary era (1975-1979). This collection closes with two essays, written 16 years apart, that deal with what the author calls “the tragedy of Cambodian history.”
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Premier Book Marketing Ltd Thailand
Number of pages
340
Condition
New
Number of Pages
340
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9789747100648
SKU
V9789747100648
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About David Chandler
David Chandler is professor emeritus of history at Monash University. He is the author of A History of Cambodia (Westview, 1983), Brother Number One: A Political Biography of Pol Pot (Westview, 1992; 2nd ed., 1999), andVoices from S-21: Terror and History in Pol Pot's Secret Prison (University of California Press, 1999).
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