Angkor
: Cities and Temples
by Claude Jacques, et al
(Hardcover - January 2001)
Angkor:
Celestial Temples of the Khmer
by Jon Ortner (Photographer), et al
(Hardcover - December 2002)
Angkor
Wat: Time, Space, and Kingship
by Eleanor Mannikka
(Paperback - May 2000)
The
Art of Southeast Asia : Cambodia Vietnam Thailand Laos Burma Java Bali
(World of Art)
by Philip S. Rawson
Cambodia
: Report from a Stricken Land
by Henry Kamm
Cambodia has long been regarded as one of the lost causes of U.S. foreign
policy. Many view it as the unfortunate stage upon which American and Communist
forces battled during the Vietnam War in a savage struggle that tore up
the land and shattered the fragile populace. Starting with the overthrow
of Prince Norodom Sihanouk in 1970, South East Asia correspondent and Pulitzer
Prize winner Henry Kamm recalls 30 years of revolution and genocide in
Cambodia. He begins with the establishment of the Khmer Rouge, detailing
the vicious Communist occupation that took place between 1975 to 1979,
then moves on to the Vietnamese invasion, the 1991 Paris peace settlement,
and the demise of Pol Pot. Kamm pays special attention to the foreign influences
that played a significant role in crippling the evolution of the Cambodian
people.
This sobering perspective on Cambodia's recent, often tragic, history
explains how years of political turbulence and violence has strangled the
economy and stagnated the social growth of the people to this day. Kamm
intrepidly attempts to answer the questions of "why" and "how" even as
he contemplates the uncertain future of the country as the new millennium
approaches. Kamm writes with poise and grace, while his 30 years of experience
in the region gives him unique insight into the plight of the Cambodians.
Those who were moved by The Killing Fields, will find Cambodia a gripping
read. --Jeremy Storey - Amazon.com
Paperback: 288 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.85 x
9.24 x 6.13
Publisher: Arcade Publishing; ; (October 1999)
ISBN: 1559705078
Cambodia
: A Book for People Who Find Television Too Slow
Cambodian
Architecture: Eighth to Thirteenth Centuries
by Jacques Dumarcay, Pascal Royere, Michael Smithies (Translator)
Hardcover: 121 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.00 x
10.00 x 6.50
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers; (June 2001)
ISBN: 9004113460
The
Civilization of Angkor
by Charles Higham
Hardcover: 224 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.91 x
9.43 x 6.41
Publisher: University of California Press; (January 2002)
ISBN: 0520234421
Children
of Cambodia's Killing Fields : Memoirs by Survivors
by Dith Pran (Compiler), Ben Kiernan (Introduction), Kim Depaul (Editor)
Dith Pran, the Cambodian photojournalist portrayed by Haing S. Ngor
in The Killing Fields, compiled this collection of eyewitness accounts
to the genocide perpetrated by Pol Pot's regime from 1975 to 1979. All
of the survivors who recount their stories here were children when the
Khmer Rouge took power, and the horrific images from a time when an estimated
third of the Cambodian population died of disease, starvation, and execution
remain fixed in their minds to this day.
The bleakness of evil made commonplace permeates these testaments. "There
was a man who was friends with a woman, and they had a friendly chat under
a tree," one woman writes. "Pol Pot saw them and accused them of having
an affair... Pol Pot tied them up on a cross and then told everyone to
watch the couple being questioned and hit. The lady was pregnant and was
hit until she lost the baby and died. The man was also beaten to death."
As Cambodians struggle to rebuild their lives and nation, books such as
this make sure that they--and we--will never forget the depths from which
they have been forced to rise. Amazon.com
Paperback: 224 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.69 x
8.24 x 5.47
Publisher: Yale Univ Pr; ; (April 1999)
ISBN: 0300078730
First
They Killed My Father : A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
by Loung Ung
A
History of Cambodia
by David Chandler
Book Description This clear and concise volume provides a timely
overview of Cambodia, a small but increasingly visible Southeast Asian
nation. Hailed by the Journal of Asian Studies as an "original contribution,
superior to any other existing work," the third edition of this acclaimed
text has been completely revised and updated to include all-new material
examining the death of Pol Pot and the collapse of the Khmer Rouge. In
addition, Chandler examines the unstable but influential career of Prince
Norodom...
Paperback: 296 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.68 x
9.01 x 5.91
Publisher: Westview Press; 3rd edition (March 2000)
ISBN: 0813335116
Khmer
Mythology: Secrets of Angkor
by Vittorio Roveda
Paperback: 184 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.75 x
10.00 x 7.25
Publisher: Weatherhill; (October 2000)
ISBN: 0834804247
Judge
Rabbit and the Tree Spirit : A Folktale from Cambodia/Bilingual in English
and Khmer
by Cathy Spagnoli et al.
Khmer:
The Lost Empire of Cambodia
by Theirry Zephir
Paperback: 128 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.36 x
6.97 x 4.93
Publisher: Harry N Abrams; (April 1998)
ISBN: 0810928531
A
Photographic Guide to Mammals of South-East Asia : Including Thailand,
Malaysia, Singapore, Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia, Java, Sumatra, Bali
an
by Charles M. Francis
The
Parrot's Beak : U.S. Operations in Cambodia
by Paul B. Morgan
The
Pol Pot Regime : Race, Power, and Genocide in Cambodia Under the Khmer
Rouge, 1975-79
by Ben Kiernan
Why
Vietnam Invaded Cambodia : Political Culture & the Causes of War
Ruins
of Angkor Cambodia in 1909
by Pierre Dieulefils
(Hardcover)
Soul
Survivors: Stories of Women and Children in Cambodia
by Carol Wagner, et al
(Paperback)
Swimming
to Cambodia
Sihanouk:
Prince of Light, Prince of Darkness
by Milton E. Osborne
Paperback: 304 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.82 x
9.07 x 6.18
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press; (May 1994)
ISBN: 0824816390
Sanctuary:
The Temples of Angkor
by Steve McCurry
Book Description: Magnum photographer Steve McCurry has beautifully
and evocatively photographed the temples of Angkor in Cambodia, among the
world's most impressive monuments. Over one hundred of his images of the
site are collected in this stunning book, which documents a magical world
of carved gods, weathered masonry, tangled vegetation and orange-robed
monks. Angkor was the capital of the Khmer rulers from the end of the ninth
century until the mid-fifteenth. Each built a state temple at the capital,
surrounded by walls, moats and embankments laid out in accordance with
cosmological precepts. Designated a World Heritage site by UNESCO, the
temples attract tourists, archaeologists and art historians, and are also
a pilgrimage destination for Buddhist monks. McCurry first visited Angkor
on assignment for National Geographic magazine, for whom he has photographed
all over the world. He has made many return visits, capturing a sublime
portrait of the buildings, sculpture and people of Angkor.
Winner of numerous honours, including first prize in the World Press
awards and the Robert Capa Gold Medal, McCurry has previously published
Portraits and South Southeast (both with Phaidon).
The photographs are accompanied by an informative introduction on the
history and meaning of Angkor by John Guy, a leading authority on the cultural
history of Southeast Asia. Guy is curator of Indian and Southeast Asian
sculpture at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, and Consultant to
UNESCO on historical monuments in Southeast Asia.
Hardcover: ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.78 x 7.78 x 11.00
Publisher: Phaidon Press Inc.; (June 2002)
ISBN: 0714841757 |
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The
Terrible But Unfinished Story of Norodom Sihanouk, King of Cambodia
by Helene Cixous, Juliet Flower MacCannell (Translator), Judith Pike
(Translator), Lollie Groth
Paperback: 233 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.63 x
8.96 x 5.98
Publisher: Univ of Nebraska Pr; (April 1994)
ISBN: 0803263619
The
Tragedy of Cambodian History
by David P. Chandler
Paperback: ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.21 x 9.18 x 6.12
Publisher: Yale Univ Pr; Reprint edition (August 1993)
When
Broken Glass Floats: Growing Up Under the Khmer Rouge
by Chanrithy Him
"Chea, how come good doesn't win over evil?" young Chanrithy Him asks
her sister, after the brutal Khmer Rouge have seized power in Cambodia,
but before hunger makes them too weak for philosophy. Chea answers only
with a proverb: When good and evil are thrown together into the river of
life, first the klok or squash (representing good) will sink, and the armbaeg
or broken glass (representing evil) will float. But the broken glass, Chea
assures her, never floats for long: "When good appears to lose, it is an
opportunity for one to be patient, and become like God."
Before this proverb could come true, Chanrithy had to watch her mother,
father, and five of her brothers and sisters die, murdered by the Khmer
Rouge or fatally weakened by malnutrition, disease, and overwork. Now living
in Oregon, where she studies posttraumatic stress disorder among Cambodian
survivors, Chanrithy has written a first-person account of the killing
fields that's remarkable for both its unflinching honesty and its refusal
to despair. In wrenchingly immediate prose, she describes atrocities the
rest of the world might prefer to ignore: her sick yet still breathing
mother, thrown along with corpses into a well; a pregnant woman beaten
to death with a spade, the baby struggling inside her; a sister impossibly
swollen with edema, her starving body leaking fluid from the webbing between
her toes.
The mind retreats from horrors like these--and yet what emerges most
strongly from this memoir is the triumph of life. Chanrithy is determined
to honor her pledge to the dying Chea, to study medicine so she can help
others live. When Broken Glass Floats accomplishes the same goal in a different
way. "As a survivor, I want to be worthy of the suffering that I endured,"
Chanrithy writes; by giving such eloquent voice to her dead, she has proven
herself more than worthy of her suffering--and theirs. --Chloe Byrne
- Amazon.com
Paperback: 330 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.79 x
8.21 x 5.51
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company; (April 2001)
ISBN: 0393322106
When
the War Was over : Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge Revolution
by Elizabeth Becker
Elizabeth Becker's When the War Was Over: Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge
Revolution is a heart-rending history of modern Cambodia--a state whose
people have, in the last 30 years, endured war, political upheaval, international
betrayal, and genocide. Beginning with the Khmer Rouge overthrow of the
U.S.-backed Lon Nol regime in 1975, Becker examines the historical patterns
of violence and authority within Cambodian culture that made the Khmer
Rouge's slaughter of close to 2 million people possible.
Becker integrates interviews with Cambodian leaders and ordinary citizens
with a penetrating analysis of the politics of the cold war and humanitarianism.
For example, she follows the story of Mey Komphot, a banker, who, like
millions of others, was displaced from his life in Phnom Penh and marched
to a labor camp. She also explores how the United States, as well as many
states within the United Nations, refused to acknowledge the forced departures
and the killing in order to appease China's hunger for punishing Vietnam's
1978 invasion of Cambodia. By contrasting the concerns of states with those
of people, Becker shows how the international order has repeatedly betrayed
the people of Cambodia. When the War Was Over is more than just an authoritative
account of the Cambodian Revolution; Becker's trenchant portrait of the
dynamics of power and human suffering serves as a warning about how diplomatic
imperatives can blunt the United Nations' ability to preserve human rights
and life. --James Highfill - Amazon.com
Paperback: 520 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.65 x
8.20 x 5.57
Publisher: PublicAffairs; ; (November 1998)
ISBN: 1891620002
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