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Phnom Penh : a cultural history /
"As a one-time resident of Phnom Penh and an authority on Southeast Asia, Milton Osborne provides a colorful account of the troubled history and appealing culture of Cambodia's capital city. Osborne sheds light on Phnom Penh's early history, when first Iberian missionaries and freeboo...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
2008.
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| Colección: | Cityscapes.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- A personal introduction to a changing city
- Deciphering the palimpsest: finding the past in the present
- Iberian alarums and excursions
- Royal, city, colonial city
- Transformation: building the new Phnom Penh in an era of colonial good feeling
- Phnom Penh before the second World War: a literary way station for the Angkor temples
- Watershed years, 1939-1953
- "Sihanouk time": 1953-1970
- Three years, eight months and twenty days: Phnom Penh under Pol Pot
- Writing obituaries for "old Phnom Penh"
- Ambiguous city in an ambiguous country, 1979-1993
- Today's city: somehow hope survives.