Cambodge: The Cultivation of a Nation, 1860-1945

by Penny Edwards

Book Overview

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 M tropole. From the naturalist Henri...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824833465
• ISBN13: 9780824833466
• Release Date: September 2008
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"