Tragedy of Cambodian History, The: Politics, War, and Revolution since 1945 Forestry Among the Mien people of

Among the Mien people of northern Thailand

massacres justified by philanthropy’

and something that comes out of the society of the living and the dead

—A forest monk

A timely and relevant study in this age of concern about transnational ‘religious’ networks where powerful use of ethnographic date illuminates an original and striking thesis on the ambiguous nature of the Sai Baba movement

Tragedy of Cambodian History, The: Politics, War, and Revolution since 1945 Forestry Among the Mien people of412 pp, 15x23 cm. In this penetrating and poignant book, David P. Chandler presents the first full account of Cambodian history from World War II up to 1979, focusing on the civil war period and the devastating revolutionary excesses of the Pol Pot regime. Drawing on his experience as a foreign service officer in Phnom Penh, on interviews, and on archival material, Chandler considers why the revolution happened and how it was related to Cambodias