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Monarchical Manipulation in Cambodia 2018 - France, Japan, and the Sihanouk Crusade for Independence (Paperback) Loot Price: R853
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Monarchical Manipulation in Cambodia 2018 - France, Japan, and the Sihanouk Crusade for Independence (Paperback): Geoffrey C....

Monarchical Manipulation in Cambodia 2018 - France, Japan, and the Sihanouk Crusade for Independence (Paperback)

Geoffrey C. Gunn

Series: NIAS Monographs, 141

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One figure strides across modern Cambodian history - Norodom Sihanouk. From his accession to the throne of Cambodia in 1941 until his extravagant funeral ceremony in 2013, the prince turned `king father' in later life never dodged controversy. But this is not a biography of Sihanouk; the focus is upon the final decades of the French protectorate, the rise of a counter-elite and winning of Cambodia's independence. Manipulation of the 1,000-year-old monarchy comes to the heart of this book, as does indigenous resistance, Buddhist activism, French cultural creationism, the rise of radical republicanism, Thai recidivism and wartime Japanese machinations. Carried through into the postwar period, the seeds of Cambodia's own destruction were being sown in the jungle perimeters, rubber plantations, schools and monkhood, and even in the classrooms of prestigious French institutions. Deeply embedded Khmer cultural conventions and the interplay of charismatic power and patronage are not irrelevant to this discussion, indeed inform us as to the future and even present-day patterns of political behaviour. The skill of the young Sihanouk in navigating between Vichy France, Japanese militarists, republican opportunists, armed rural insurgency and French proconsuls is brought to life by a range of new archival documentation. A book is also a work of premonition as much inquiry, exploring how did a country of such grace and natural bounty come to be associated with the worst excesses of mass murder and genocide experienced in the twentieth century. The long political prelude as exposed in this book makes the now cliched `tragedy of Cambodian history' much more comprehensible.

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Imprint: NIAS Press
Country of origin: Denmark
Series: NIAS Monographs, 141
Release date: 2018
Authors: Geoffrey C. Gunn
Dimensions: 228 x 152mm (L x W)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 448
ISBN-13: 978-87-7694-238-0
Categories: Books > Humanities > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history > General
Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political ideologies > Imperialism
Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political structure & processes > Colonization & independence
Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political structure & processes > Political leaders & leadership
Books > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history > General
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LSN: 87-7694-238-4
Barcode: 9788776942380

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