From the Land of Shadows : : War, Revolution, and the Making of the Cambodian Diaspora /

From the Land of Shadows : : War, Revolution, and the Making of the Cambodian Diaspora / / Khatharya Um.

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In a century of mass atrocities, the Khmer Rouge regime marked Cambodia with one of the most extreme genocidal instances in human history. What emerged in the aftermath of the regime's collapse in 1979 was a nation fractured by death and dispersal. It is estimated that nearly one-fourth of the...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
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Um, Khatharya,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2015]
©2015
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:Nation of Nations ; 14
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Physical Description:1 online resource :; 1 black and white illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Historical Timeline
  • Administrative map of Democratic Kampuchea
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Life and Death under the Khmer Rouge
  • The Prisoner
  • 1. Violence in Utopia
  • 2. The Children of Angkar
  • Part II. Historicizing Diaspora
  • 3. Prelude to Terror
  • 4. From Peasants to Revolutionaries
  • 5. Instrumentality of Terror
  • Part III. Cambodian/Americans and the Legacies of Genocide
  • 6. Fragments
  • 7. Homeland, Exile, and Return
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • About the Author

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