The Pol Pot Regime ... 1975-79

Race, Power, and Genocide in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge

Ben Kiernan

• Editorial: Yale University Press
• Año: 2008
• ISBN:
  9780300142990
• Edición: 1
• Categoría: Historia
• Categoría: Historia asiática

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

Índice

• 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
• Part I: Wiping the Slate Clean: The Regime Takes Shape
• 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
• Part II: Writing on the Slate, 1975-77: The CPK Project
• 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
• Part III: The Slate Crumbles, 1977-79: Convulsion and Destruction
• 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