Cambodia

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

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