Table of Contents

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.

About the Author

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).