Cambodge : the cultivation of a nation, 1860-1945 / Penny Edwards.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Edwards, Penny, 1962-

Series:

Southeast Asia--politics, meaning, memory.

Southeast Asia--politics, meaning, and memory

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nationalism--Cambodia--History.

Nationalism.

Cambodia--Intellectual life--19th century.

Cambodia.

Cambodia--Intellectual life--20th century.

Cambodia--History--1863-1953.

Physical Description:

viii, 349 p. : ill.

Place of Publication:

Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This strikingly original study of Cambodian nationalism brings to life eight turbulent decades of cultural change and sheds new light on the colonial ancestry of Pol Pot's murderous dystopia. Penny Edwards recreates the intellectual milieux and cultural traffic linking Europe and empire, interweaving analysis of key movements and ideas in the French Protectorate of Cambodge with contemporary developments in the Métropole. From the naturalist Henri Mouhot's expedition to Angkor in 1860 to the nationalist Son Ngoc Thanh's short-lived premiership in 1945, this history of ideas tracks the talented Cambodian and French men and women who shaped the contours of the modern Khmer nation. Their visions and ambitions played out within a shifting landscape of Angkorean temples, Parisian museums, Khmer printing presses, world's fairs, Buddhist monasteries, and Cambodian youth hostels. This is cross-cultural history at its best. With its fresh take on the dynamics of colonialism and nationalism, Cambodge: The Cultivation of a Nation will become essential reading for scholars of history, politics, and society in Southeast Asia. Edwards' nuanced analysis of Buddhism and her consideration of Angkor's emergence as a national monument will be of particular interest to students of Asian and European religion, museology, heritage studies, and art history. As a highly readable guide to Cambodia's recent past, it will also appeal to specialists in modern French history, cultural studies, and colonialism, as well as readers with a general interest in Cambodia.

Contents:

Introduction : originations

The temple complex : Angkor and the archaeology of colonial fantasy, 1860-1906

Urban legend : capitalising on Angkor

Les fideles cambodgiens and Les khmerophiles : scripting a Khmer nation, 1870-1935

Colonialism and its demerits : bringing Buddhism to book, 1863-1922

Violent lives : disengaging Angkor, 1907-1916

Copy rites : Angkor and the art of authenticity

Secularizing the Sangha, 1900-1935

Holy trinity : Chuon Nath, Huot Tath, and Suzanne Karpeles

Traffic : setting Khmerism in motion, 1935-1945

Past colonial?

Credits:

Series designed by Richard Hendel.

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Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]-339) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Aug 2019)

ISBN:

9780824861759

0824861752

9781435665606

1435665600

OCLC:

251632618