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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : électronique
Auteur(s) : Tyner, James A. (1966-....)
Titre(s) : From rice fields to killing fields [Texte électronique] : nature, life, and labor under the Khmer Rouge / James A. Tyner
Publication : Syracuse, NY : Syracuse university press, copyright 2017
Description matérielle : 1 online resource (xxv- 241 p.) ; 24 cm
Collection : Syracuse studies in geography
Lien à la collection : Syracuse studies in geography
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. 223-236. Index
Between 1975 and 1979, the Communist Party of Kampuchea fundamentally transformed
the social, economic, political, and natural landscape of Cambodia. During this time,
as many as two million Cambodians died from exposure, disease, and starvation, or
were executed at the hands of the Party. The dominant interpretation of Cambodian
history during this period presents the CPK as a totalitarian, communist, and autarkic
regime seeking to reorganize Cambodian society around a primitive, agrarian political
economy. From Rice Fields to Killing Fields challenges previous interpretations and
provides a documentary-based Marxist interpretation of the political economy of Democratic
Kampuchea. Tyner argues that Cambodia's mass violence was the consequence not of the
deranged attitudes and paranoia of a few tyrannical leaders but that the violence
was structural, the direct result of a series of political and economic reforms that
were designed to accumulate capital rapidly: the dispossession of hundreds of thousands
of people through forced evacuations, the imposition of starvation wages, the promotion
of import-substitution policies, and the intensification of agricultural production
through forced labor. Moving beyond the Cambodian genocide, Tyner maintains that it
is a mistake to view Democratic Kampuchea in isolation, as an aberration or something
unique. Rather, the policies and practices initiated by the Khmer Rouge must be seen
in a larger, historical-geographical context
Autre(s) forme(s) du titre :
- Autre forme du titre : Nature, life, and labor under the Khmer Rouge
Sujet(s) : Communisme -- Cambodge
Violence politique -- Cambodge -- 20e siècle
Khmers rouges
Cambodian national unity party
Indice(s) Dewey :
959.604 2 (23e éd.) = Histoire - Cambodge - 1970-1993
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780815635567. - ISBN 0815635567. - ISBN 9780815635413. - ISBN 0815635419. -
ISBN 9780815654223 (erroné). - ISBN 0815654227. - ISBN 9780815654223
EAN 9780815635413
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