The Pol Pot regime : race, power, and genocide in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, 1975-79 /
The Khmer Rouge revolution turned Cambodia into grisly killing fields, as the Pol Pot regime murdered or starved to death a million and a half of Cambodia's eight million inhabitants. This book - the first comprehensive study of the Pol Pot regime - describes the violent origins, social context...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
New Haven :
Yale University Press,
©1996.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | The Khmer Rouge revolution turned Cambodia into grisly killing fields, as the Pol Pot regime murdered or starved to death a million and a half of Cambodia's eight million inhabitants. This book - the first comprehensive study of the Pol Pot regime - describes the violent origins, social context, and course of the revolution, providing a new answer to the question of why a group of Cambodian intellectuals imposed genocide on their own country. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiii, 477 pages, 20 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 467-469) and index. |
ISBN: | 0585360316 9780585360317 0300061137 9780300061130 |