The Pol Pot Regime ... 1975-79
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The Pol Pot Regime ... 1975-79

Race, Power, and Genocide in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge

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The Pol Pot Regime ... 1975-79

Race, Power, and Genocide in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge

About this book

This edition of Ben Kiernan's definitive account of the Cambodian revolution and genocide includes a new preface that takes the story up to 2008 and the UN-sponsored Khmer Rouge tribunal.

"Deeply detailed, meticulously reported. . . . Important [and] valuable." -Nation

"In this authoritative work, Ben Kiernan . . . explores the reasons why Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge revolution became a Cambodian nightmare." -Richard Gough, Times Higher Education Supplement

"Perhaps the most complete [account of Pol Pot's terror] and the closest to Cambodian sources." -Economist

"One of the most important contributions to the subject so far." -R. B. Smith,Asian Affairs

"Kiernan, the leading authority on modern Cambodia, meticulously examines Pol Pot's killing machine and clears up many misconceptions found in earlier studies. . . . An important book for students of genocide as well as scholars of Southeast Asia." -Library Journal

"[A] detailed and chilling history." -Asiaweek

"The most detailed history to date of the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime. . . . This book . . . will certainly be the benchmark against which all future research on the Khmer Rouge must be measured. Very highly recommended." -Choice

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Information

Publisher
Yale University Press
Year
2008
eBook ISBN
9780300142990
Edition
1
Topic
History
Subtopic
Asian History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Preface to the Third Edition
  3. Preface to the Second Edition
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. List of Acronyms
  6. Glossary
  7. CHAPTER ONE Introduction: The Making of the 1975 Khmer Rouge Victory
  8. Part I: Wiping the Slate Clean: The Regime Takes Shape
  9. CHAPTER TWO Cleansing the Cities: The Quest for Total Power
  10. CHAPTER THREE Cleansing the Countryside: Race, Power, and the Party, 1973–75
  11. CHAPTER FOUR Cleansing the Frontiers: Neighbors, Friends, and Enemies, 1975-76
  12. Part II: Writing on the Slate, 1975-77: The CPK Project
  13. CHAPTER FIVE An Indentured Agrarian State, 1975-77 (I): The Base Areas-The Southwest and the East
  14. CHAPTER SIX An Indentured Agrarian State, 1975-77 (II): Peasants and Deportees in the Northwest
  15. CHAPTER SEVEN Ethnic Cleansing: The CPK and Cambodia's Minorities, 1975-77
  16. Part III: The Slate Crumbles, 1977-79: Convulsion and Destruction
  17. CHAPTER EIGHT Power Politics, 1976-77
  18. CHAPTER NINE Foreign Relations, 1977-78: Warfare, Weapons, and Wildlife
  19. CHAPTER TEN "Thunder without Rain": Race and Power in Cambodia, 1978
  20. CHAPTER ELEVEN The End of the Pol Pot Regime
  21. Select Bibliography
  22. Index