The Pol Pot regime [[electronic resource] ] : race, power, and genocide in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, 1975-79 / / Ben Kiernan

• Autore: Kiernan Ben
• Pubblicazione: New Haven [Conn.], : Yale University Press, 2008
• Edizione: 3rd ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (539 p.)
• Disciplina: 959.604/2
• Soggetto topico: Communism - Cambodia; Political atrocities - Cambodia; Genocide - Cambodia
• Soggetto geografico: Cambodia Politics and government 1975-1979
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 467-469) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: The Pol Pot regime
• ISBN: 1-282-35230-X; 9786612352300; 0-300-14299-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910826157203321
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