Russell R. Ross, ed. Cambodia: A Country Study. Washington: GPO for the Library of Congress, 1987. Acknowledgments Preface Historical Setting PREHISTORY AND EARLY KINGDOMS Early Indianized Kingdom of Funan The Successor State of Chenla THE ANGKORIAN PERIOD CAMBODIA'S STRUGGLE FOR SURVIVAL, 1432-1887 Domination by Thailand and by Vietnam The French Protectorate THE FRENCH COLONIAL PERIOD, 1887-1953 The Colonial Economy The Emergence of Nationalism The Struggle for Independence CAMBODIA UNDER SIHANOUK, 1954-70 The Geneva Conference Domestic Developments Nonaligned Foreign Policy The Cambodian Left: The Early Phases The Paris Student Group The KPRP Second Congress INSURRECTION AND WAR, 1967-75 The March 1970 Coup d'Etat The Widening War Early Khmer Rouge Atrocities The Fall of Phnom Penh DEMOCRATIC KAMPUCHEA, 1975-78 Revolutionary Terror Society under the Angkar Politics under the Khmer Rouge Establishing Democratic Kampuchea An Elusive Party The Fall of Democratic Kampuchea The Society and Its Environment GEOGRAPHY Topography Climate Riverse Regional Divisions POPULATION Social Structure and Organization The Khmer The Cham The Khmer Loeu The Chinese The Vietnamese LANGUAGES BUDDHISM Chinese Religion Islam Christianity EDUCATION HEALTH AND WELFARE The Economy ECONOMIC SETTING Natural Resources Labor Force ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENTS AFTER INDEPENDENCE Sihanouk's Peacetime Economy, 1953-70 The Wartime Economy, 1970-75 The Economy under the Khmer Rouge, 1975-79 ECONOMIC ROLE OF THE KPRP AGRICULTURE Livestock Fisheries INDUSTRY DOMESTIC COMMERCE FOREIGN TRADE Major Trading Partners Government and Politics MAJOR POLITICAL DEVELOPMENTS, 1977-81 COALITION GOVERNMENT OF DEMOCRATIC KAMPUCHEA Democratic Kampuchea The Khmer People's National Liberation Front THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF KAMPUCHEA The Constitution Government Structure THE MEDIA THE KPRP THE KUFNCD FOREIGN AFFAIRS The Coalition's Strategy Phnom Penh and Its Allies The Search for Peace From "Proximity Talks" to a "Cocktail Party" The Sihanouk-Hun Sen Meeting Bibliography
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