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Record Nr.

UNINA9910299804203321

Titolo

Cambodia and the West, 1500-2000 / / edited by T. O. Smith

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2018

ISBN

1-137-55532-7

Edizione

[1st ed. 2018.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (229 pages)

Disciplina

959.6

Soggetti

Southeast Asia—History

Europe—History

Civilization—History

World politics

Social history

History of Southeast Asia

European History

Cultural History

Political History

Social History

History

Cambodia Foreign relations Western countries

Western countries Foreign relations Cambodia

Cambodia History

Cambodia

Western countries

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

1. Cambodia and the West: An Introduction; T.O. Smith -- 2. The Coming of the West: European Cambodian Marketplace Connectivity, 1500-1800; Kenneth R. Hall -- 3. Cambodia in the Nineteenth Century: Out of the Siamese Frying Pan and into the French Fire?; John Tully -- 4. Cambodia in French Indochina, 1900-1945; Trude Jacobsen -- 5. A British Interlude: Allied Peace Enforcement, 1945-1947; T.O. Smith --



6. Independence to Disaster, 1945-1975; Trude Jacobsen -- 7. The United States and Cambodia, 1960–1991; Kenton Clymer -- 8. Cambodia and the United Nations, 1980-2000 (and beyond); Fergal Quinn & Kevin Doyle -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

This volume brings together an interdisciplinary team of established and emergent scholars from the disciplines of history, political science and communication studies, to work on a historical reappraisal of Cambodia’s relationships with the West. Chapters examine moments of historical import in Cambodia's history, from the sixteenth to the twenty-first century. These include Cambodia’s first contacts with European mercantilism; the establishment of formal French colonialism and commercialism; British peace enforcement and diplomacy after the Second World War; Independence, modernisation and the onset of the Cold War and the United Nations peace process, and the Khmer Rouge genocide tribunal of more recent times. The result is a unique and significant new analysis of some of Cambodia’s most controversial interactions with the West, which demonstrates how far the West has shaped the development of Cambodia in the contemporary epoch. .