Cambodians in Long Beach

by Susan Needham and Karen Quintiliani

Book Overview

A relatively new immigrant group in the United States, Cambodians arrived in large numbers only after the 1975 U.S. military withdrawal from Southeast Asia. The region's resulting volatility included Cambodia's overthrow by the brutal Khmer Rouge. The four-year reign of terror by these Communist extremists resulted in the deaths of an estimated two million Cambodians in what has become known as the "killing fields." Many early Cambodian evacuees settled...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0738556238
• ISBN13: 9780738556239
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC)
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.5" x 9.2"