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Facing the Cambodian Past: Selected Essays 1971-1994
Facing the Cambodian Past Selected Essays 19711994 Author:David Chandler These 19 essays cover a range of themes and problems as perceived by a leading student of Cambodia's past. They include studies of the leper-king myth at Angkor, post-Angkorean normative poems, nineteenth century perceptions of the moral order, and royally sponsored human sacrifices in rural Cambodia in the 1870s. Other essays deal with aspects ... more »of the colonial period and the revolutionary era (1975-1979). The collection closes with two essays, written sixteen years apart, that deal with what the author calls "the tragedy of Cambodian history".« less