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The Pol Pot regime : race, power, and genocide in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, 1975-79 / Ben Kiernan.
- Title
- The Pol Pot regime : race, power, and genocide in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, 1975-79 / Ben Kiernan.
- Author
- Kiernan, Ben
- Publication
- New Haven, Conn. ; London : Yale University Press, 2008.
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| Text | Request in advance | DS554.8 .K54 2008 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xxxix, 477 p. : ill., map; 20 cm.
- Summary
- This edition of Ben Kiernan's 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. Kiernan's other books include 'Blood and Soil: A World History of Genocide and Extermination from Sparta to Darfur' and 'How Pol Pot Came to Power'.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History
- Note
- Previous ed.: 1996.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 467-469) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction: the making of the 1975 Khmer Rouge victory -- Cleansing the cities: the quest for total power -- Cleansing the countryside: race, power, and the party, 1973-75 -- Cleansing the frontiers: neighbors, friends, and enemies, 1975-76 -- An indentured agrarian state, 1975-77 (I): the base areas -- the Southwest and the East -- An indentured agrarian state, 1975-77 (II): peasants and deportees in the Northwest -- Ethnic cleansing: the CPK and Cambodia's minorities, 1975-77 -- Power politics, 1976-77 -- Foreign relations, 1977-78: warfare, weapons, and wildlife -- "Thunder without rain": race and power in Cambodia, 1978 -- The end of the Pol Pot regime.
- ISBN
- 9780300144345 (pbk.)
- 0300144342 (pbk.)
- OCLC
- 227274736
- SCSB-12131523
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library