From the Land of Shadows : War, Revolution, and the Making of the Cambodian Diaspora /

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In a century of mass atrocities, the Khmer Rouge regime marked Cambodia with one of the most extreme genocidal instances in human history. What emerged in the aftermath of the regime's collapse in 1979 was a nation fractured by death and dispersal. It is estimated that nearly one-fourth of the...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Um, Khatharya (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : New York University Press, [2015]
Colección:Nation of Nations ; 14
Temas:
Cambodian Americans > Interviews.
Cambodian Americans > Social conditions.
Cambodians > Migrations > History > 20th century.
Cambodians > France > Interviews.
Genocide > Cambodia > History > 20th century.
Political violence > Cambodia > History > 20th century.
Refugees > United States > Social conditions.
Totalitarianism > Social aspects > Cambodia > History > 20th century.
Victims of state-sponsored terrorism > Cambodia > Interviews.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Customs & Traditions.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Historical Timeline
  • Administrative map of Democratic Kampuchea
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Life and Death under the Khmer Rouge
  • The Prisoner
  • 1. Violence in Utopia
  • 2. The Children of Angkar
  • Part II. Historicizing Diaspora
  • 3. Prelude to Terror
  • 4. From Peasants to Revolutionaries
  • 5. Instrumentality of Terror
  • Part III. Cambodian/Americans and the Legacies of Genocide
  • 6. Fragments
  • 7. Homeland, Exile, and Return
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • About the Author

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