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France on the Mekong a history of the Protectorate in Cambodia, 1863-1953 John Tully.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Lanham, Md. University Press of America 2002.Description: xxviii, 562 pages 22 cmISBN:
  • 0761824316
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 959.603 TUL
Contents:
Chapter 1. August 1863: gunboat diplomacy on the Mekong Chapter 2. The Cambodian dark ages Chapter 3. Take the road traveled by the ancestors Chapter 4. An unequal struggle Chapter 5. The great rebellion Chapter 6. "The king is a mere puppet" Chapter 7. Economic and social development in the nineteenth century Chapter 8. Sisowath "might almost be a Frenchman" Chapter 9. Patterns of rural violence and resistance Chapter 10. The great peasant revolt: the 1916 affair Chapter 11. "A kind of Belle Epoque": the monarchy and politics between the wars Chapter 12. The mission civilisatrice: health, education and the restoration of Angkor Chapter 13. Sons of toil or sons of Angkor? Chapter 14. Boom, bust and social developoment between the wars Chapter 15. A dictatorship of police and civil servants Chapter 16. King rubber Chapter 17. The fall of France and the Franco-Thai war Chapter 18. A little tiger on the throne Chapter 19. The Vichy regime: authoritarianism, Khmerite and revolt Chapter 20. The "Kingdom of Kampuchea" and the return of the French Chapter 21. The parliamentary experiment Chapter 22. An Asian Alsace-Lorraine Chapter 23. Absolutism versus parliamentary democracy Chapter 24. The Khmer Issarak insurrection Chapter 25. Sihanouk triumphant: "the royal crusade for independence". Conclusion: In the image of France?

Includes bibliographical references (p. [513]-542) and index.

Chapter 1. August 1863: gunboat diplomacy on the Mekong Chapter 2. The Cambodian dark ages Chapter 3. Take the road traveled by the ancestors Chapter 4. An unequal struggle Chapter 5. The great rebellion Chapter 6. "The king is a mere puppet" Chapter 7. Economic and social development in the nineteenth century Chapter 8. Sisowath "might almost be a Frenchman" Chapter 9. Patterns of rural violence and resistance Chapter 10. The great peasant revolt: the 1916 affair Chapter 11. "A kind of Belle Epoque": the monarchy and politics between the wars Chapter 12. The mission civilisatrice: health, education and the restoration of Angkor Chapter 13. Sons of toil or sons of Angkor? Chapter 14. Boom, bust and social developoment between the wars Chapter 15. A dictatorship of police and civil servants Chapter 16. King rubber Chapter 17. The fall of France and the Franco-Thai war Chapter 18. A little tiger on the throne Chapter 19. The Vichy regime: authoritarianism, Khmerite and revolt Chapter 20. The "Kingdom of Kampuchea" and the return of the French Chapter 21. The parliamentary experiment Chapter 22. An Asian Alsace-Lorraine Chapter 23. Absolutism versus parliamentary democracy Chapter 24. The Khmer Issarak insurrection Chapter 25. Sihanouk triumphant: "the royal crusade for independence". Conclusion: In the image of France?

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