Publisher's Synopsis
This thoroughly revised and updated edition of "A History of Cambodia" provides a study of this increasingly visible Southeast Asian nation.;The first edition dealt with the period up to 1953, when Cambodia gained its independence from France. This second edition carries the narrative forward to the peace negotiations of 1990. The author focuses especially on the unstable but influential career of Prince Norodom Sihanouk, the bloody reign of Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge, and the relative calm that followed the Vietnamese invasion of 1979.
