Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Map of Cambodia

1 The people and their environment

2 Cambodia before Angkor

3 The ancient Angkorean civilisation

4 From Angkor’s end to the French protectorate

5 The French protectorate, 1863–1953

6 Sihanouk, star of the Cambodian stage, 1953–70

7 The doomed Republic, 1970–75

8 Pol Pot’s savage utopia, 1975–79

9 Painful transition: The People’s Republic of Kampuchea

10 Towards an uncertain future

Glossary and abbreviations

Notes

Further reading