A History of Cambodia (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780813343631)

In this clear and concise volume, author David Chandler provides a timely overview of Cambodia, a small but increasingly visible Southeast Asian nation. Praised by the Journal of Asian Studies as an ''original contribution, superior to any other existing work'', this acclaimed text has now been completely revised and updated to include material examining the early history of Cambodia, whose famous Angkorean ruins now attract more than one million tourists each year, the death of Pol Pot, and the revolution and final collapse of the Khmer Rouge. The fourth edition reflects recent research by major scholars as well as Chandler's long immersion in the subject and contains an entirely new section on the challenges facing Cambodia today, including an analysis of the current state of politics and sociology and the increasing pressures of globalization. This comprehensive overview of Cambodia will illuminate, for undergraduate students as well as general readers, the history and contemporary politics of a country long misunderstood.

Author: David Chandler
ISBN-10: 0813343631
ISBN-13: 9780813343631
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 07/31/2007
Pages: 382
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 1.00d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 05/01/2008 pg. 67