The Pol Pot Regime: Race, Power, and Genocide in Cambodia Under the Khmer Rouge, 1975-79 - Brossura

Kiernan, Ben

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ISBN 10: 0300144342 ISBN 13: 9780300144345

Casa editrice: Yale Univ Pr, 2008

Riassunto

Draws on interviews and archival material to document the extent of the atrocities committed by the Khmer Rouge in the late 1970s, which resulted in the deaths of one and a half million Cambodians.

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Recensione:

'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

'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

L'autore:

Ben Kiernan is the A. Whitney Griswold Professor of History, professor of international and area studies, and the founding director of the Genocide Studies Program at Yale University (www.yale.edu/gsp). His other books include Blood and Soil: A World History of Genocide and Extermination from Sparta to Darfur and How Pol Pot Came to Power: Colonialism, Nationalism, and Communism in Cambodia, 1930–1975, published by Yale University Press.

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• Editore: Yale Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0300144342
• ISBN 13: 9780300144345
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 3
• Numero di pagine: 477