France on the Mekong A History of the Protectorate in Cambodia, 1863-1953

Name: France on the Mekong A History of the Protectorate in Cambodia, 1863-1953
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ISBN: 9780761824312

ISBN-10: 0761824316

ISBN-13: 9780761824312

Edition: 2003

Authors: John A. Tully

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Based on largely unexploited archival sources, France on the Mekong is the first comprehensive history of the colonial era in Cambodia.

Book details

List price: $135.99
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: University Press of America, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/20/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 592
Size: 5.51" wide x 8.87" long x 1.49" tall
Weight: 1.782
Language: English



Foreword



Author's Preface


Acknowledgments


Introduction: A Faustian Bargain


Abbreviations



August 1863: Gunboat Diplomacy on the Mekong



The Cambodian Dark Ages



Take the road traveled by the ancestors



An Unequal Struggle



The Great Rebellion



"The King is a mere puppet"



Economic and Social Development in the Nineteenth Century



Sisowath "might almost be a Frenchman"



Patterns of Rural Violence and Resistance



The Great Peasant Revolt: the 1916 Affair



"A Kind of Belle Epoque": The Monarchy and Politics between the Wars



The Mission Civilisatrice: Health, Education and the Restoration of Angkor



Sons of Toil or Sons of Angkor?



Boom, Bust and Social Development Between the Wars



A Dictatorship of Police and Civil Servants



King Rubber



The Fall of France and the Franco-Thai War



A Little Tiger on the Throne



The Vichy Regime: Authoritarianism, Khmerite and Revolt



The "Kingdom of Kampuchea" and the Return of the French



The Parliamentary Experiment



An Asian Alsace-Lorraine



Absolutism Versus Parliamentary Democracy



The Khmer Issarak Insurrection



Sihanouk Triumphant: "the Royal Crusade for Independence"


Conclusion: In the Image of France?


Glossary


Bibliography


Index


About the author