04194nam 2200673 a 450 991082615720332120230721023411.01-282-35230-X97866123523000-300-14299-410.12987/9780300142990(CKB)2420000000001336(OCoLC)586149968(CaPaEBR)ebrary10343514(SSID)ssj0000306260(PQKBManifestationID)11226340(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000306260(PQKBWorkID)10294916(PQKB)10033047(MiAaPQ)EBC3420467(DE-B1597)484879(OCoLC)816341693(DE-B1597)9780300142990(Au-PeEL)EBL3420467(CaPaEBR)ebr10343514(CaONFJC)MIL235230(OCoLC)923593142(EXLCZ)99242000000000133620080228d2008 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrThe Pol Pot regime[electronic resource] race, power, and genocide in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, 1975-79 /Ben Kiernan3rd ed.New Haven [Conn.] Yale University Press20081 online resource (539 p.)Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-300-14434-2 Includes bibliographical references (p. 467-469) and index.Frontmatter --Contents --Preface to the Third Edition --Preface to the Second Edition --Acknowledgments --List of Acronyms --Glossary --CHAPTER ONE Introduction: The Making of the 1975 Khmer Rouge Victory --CHAPTER TWO Cleansing the Cities: The Quest for Total Power --CHAPTER THREE Cleansing the Countryside: Race, Power, and the Party, 1973-75 --CHAPTER FOUR Cleansing the Frontiers: Neighbors, Friends, and Enemies, 1975-76 --CHAPTER FIVE An Indentured Agrarian State, 1975-77 (I): The Base Areas-The Southwest and the East --CHAPTER SIX An Indentured Agrarian State, 1975-77 (II): Peasants and Deportees in the Northwest --CHAPTER SEVEN Ethnic Cleansing: The CPK and Cambodia's Minorities, 1975-77 --CHAPTER EIGHT Power Politics, 1976-77 --CHAPTER NINE Foreign Relations, 1977-78: Warfare, Weapons, and Wildlife --CHAPTER TEN "Thunder without Rain": Race and Power in Cambodia, 1978 --CHAPTER ELEVEN The End of the Pol Pot Regime --Select Bibliography --IndexThis 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." -ChoiceCommunismCambodiaPolitical atrocitiesCambodiaGenocideCambodiaCambodiaPolitics and government1975-1979CommunismPolitical atrocitiesGenocide959.604/2Kiernan Ben426338MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910826157203321The Pol Pot regime3951261UNINA