Cambodia and the West, 1500-2000

1. Front Matter

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2. Cambodia and the West: An Introduction

   • T. O. Smith

   Pages 1-5

3. The Coming of the West: European Cambodian Marketplace Connectivity, 1500–1800

   • Kenneth R. Hall

   Pages 7-36

4. Cambodia in the Nineteenth Century: Out of the Siamese Frying Pan and into the French Fire?

   • John Tully

   Pages 37-63

5. Cambodia in French Indochina, 1900–1945

   • Trude Jacobsen

   Pages 65-86

6. A British Interlude: Allied Peace Enforcement, 1945–1947

   • T. O. Smith

   Pages 87-113

7. Independence to Disaster, 1945–1975

   • Trude Jacobsen

   Pages 115-145

8. The United States and Cambodia, 1960–1991

   • Kenton Clymer

   Pages 147-175

9. Cambodia and the United Nations 1980–2000 (and Beyond)

   • Fergal Quinn, Kevin Doyle

   Pages 177-209

10. Back Matter

    Pages 211-222

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This volume brings together an interdisciplinary team of established and emerging scholars from the disciplines of history, political science and communication studies, to provide a historical reappraisal of Cambodia’s relationships with the West. Contributors to the volume examine moments of historical import in Cambodia's history, from the sixteenth to the twenty-first century. These include Cambodia’s first contacts with European mercantilism; the establishment of formal French colonialism and commercialism; British peace enforcement and diplomacy after the Second World War; independence, modernisation and the onset of the Cold War and the United Nations peace process; and the Khmer Rouge genocide tribunal of more recent times. The result is a unique and significant new analysis of some of Cambodia’s most controversial interactions with the West, demonstrating how far the West has shaped the development of Cambodia in the contemporary epoch.

• colonialism
• United Nations
• independence
• Khmer Rouge
• decolonialisation

• Huntington University, Huntington, IN, USA

  T. O. Smith

T.O. Smith is Professor of History at Huntington University, USA. He is the author of Britain and the Origins of the Vietnam War: UK Policy in Indo-China, 1943-50 (Palgrave, 2007), Churchill, America and Vietnam, 1941-45 (Palgrave, 2011), and Vietnam and the Unravelling of Empire: General Gracey in Asia 1941-1951 (Palgrave, 2014).

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