cambodia

Packed with photographs, illustrations, and maps, this book is a travel guide to Vietnam, presenting information on its history, beaches, markets, hotels, and restaurants. A detailed excursion to Cambodia's Angkor Wat with its temple complexes is included.

A memoir in which the author discusses her experiences as a child living in Cambodia under the brutal Khmer Rouge, and tells of the hardships her family experienced until being brought to the United States by an uncle who was living in Oregon.

Daran Kravanh recounts the experiences he had while living in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge.

Studies the rise and fall of the Khmer Empire of ancient Cambodia, and analyzes its art, architecture, and Chinese and Indian influences.

Publisher's description: This book tells of the events and personalities that shaped Cambodian history during the thirteen-year period between the overthrow of the Khmer Rouge regime in 1979 and the signing of the 1991 peace accords that resulted in U.N.-administered elections. The first study of this turbulent era, it offers a nuanced understanding of complex questions concerning human rights, economic reconstruction, institutional development, and national sovereignty, issues that were framed by the legacy of the Khmer Rouge and by a Vietnamese occupation. Drawing on a range of previously unexplored sources, including more than 1,300 internal government and party documents, Evan Gottesman describes how a handful of former Khmer Rouge soldiers and officials, Vietnamese-trained revolutionary cadres, and surviving intellectuals fought over power and policy. Gottesman discusses the regime's approach toward the Khmer Rouge, the relationship between the Cambodians and the Vietnamese, the treatment of the ethnic Chinese, and the tension between patronage politics and communist ideology. He tracks the careers of Cambodian leaders and their roles in determining the direction of the country and describes how Hun Sen, the current prime minister, rose to power in the 1980s. Gottesman concludes by explaining how the legacy of this period has influenced events in Cambodia to the present time.

Examines the genocide and human rights violations committed by the Khmer Rouge during the 1970s, why it took eighteen years for the UN to recognize the crimes, and the history of trying to bring the Khmer Rouge to justice in Cambodia.

Study of the Khmer Rouge revolution in Cambodia under the leadership of Pol Pot, discussing the virtual kidnapping of the entire nation of Cambodia, and drawing upon archives and interviews with survivors inside and outside the country to document the atrocities that took place between 1975 and 1979 resulting in the deaths of over one million Cambodians.