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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kiernan, Ben.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pol, Pot.

Parti communiste du Kampuchea.

Communism--Cambodia.

Communism.

Political atrocities--Cambodia.

Political atrocities.

Genocide--Cambodia.

Genocide.

Cambodia--Politics and government--1975-1979.

Cambodia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (539 p.)

Edition:

3rd ed.

Place of Publication:

New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 467-469) and index.

ISBN:

9786612352300

9781282352308

128235230X

9780300142990

0300142994

OCLC:

586149968