Cambodia and the West, 1500-2000

Provides fresh insights into Cambodia's complex relationship with the West Brings together essays from both established and emerging scholars Addresses pre-colonial, colonial and post-colonial contact between Cambodia and the Western world

T.O. Smith is Professor of History at Huntington University, USA. He is the author of Britain and the Origins of the Vietnam War: UK Policy in Indo-China, 1943-50 (Palgrave, 2007), Churchill, America and Vietnam, 1941-45 (Palgrave, 2011), and Vietnam and the Unravelling of Empire: General Gracey in Asia 1941-1951 (Palgrave, 2014).

1. Cambodia and the West: An Introduction; T.O. Smith.- 2. The Coming of the West: European Cambodian Marketplace Connectivity, 1500-1800; Kenneth R. Hall.- 3. Cambodia in the Nineteenth Century: Out of the Siamese Frying Pan and into the French Fire?; John Tully.- 4. Cambodia in French Indochina, 1900-1945; Trude Jacobsen.- 5. A British Interlude: Allied Peace Enforcement, 1945-1947; T.O. Smith.- 6. Independence to Disaster, 1945-1975; Trude Jacobsen.- 7. The United States and Cambodia, 1960-1991; Kenton Clymer.- 8. Cambodia and the United Nations, 1980-2000 (and beyond); Fergal Quinn & Kevin Doyle.- Index.