{"product_id":"the-pol-pot-regime-race-power-and-genocide-in-cambodia-under-the-khmer-rouge-1975-79-9780300144345","title":"The Pol Pot Regime: Race, Power, and Genocide in Cambodia Under the Khmer Rouge, 1975-79","description":"This edition of Ben Kiernan's definitive account of the Cambodian revolution and genocide includes a new preface that takes the story up to 2008 and the UN-sponsored Khmer Rouge tribunal. \u003cbr\u003e \"Deeply detailed, meticulously reported. . . . Important [and] valuable.\" --\u003ci\u003eNation\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"In this authoritative work, Ben Kiernan . . . explores the reasons why Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge revolution became a Cambodian nightmare.\" --Richard Gough, \u003ci\u003eTimes Higher Education Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Perhaps the most complete [account of Pol Pot's terror] and the closest to Cambodian sources.\" --\u003ci\u003eEconomist\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"One of the most important contributions to the subject so far.\" --R. B. Smith, \u003ci\u003eAsian Affairs\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Kiernan, the leading authority on modern Cambodia, meticulously examines Pol Pot's killing machine and clears up many misconceptions found in earlier studies. . . . An important book for students of genocide as well as scholars of Southeast Asia.\" --\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"[A] detailed and chilling history.\" --\u003ci\u003eAsiaweek\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"The most detailed history to date of the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime. . . . This book . . . will certainly be the benchmark against which all future research on the Khmer Rouge must be measured. Very highly recommended.\" --\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eBen Kiernan is the A. Whitney Griswold Professor of History, professor of international and area studies, and the founding director of the Genocide Studies Program at Yale University (www.yale.edu\/gsp). His other books include \u003ci\u003eBlood and Soil: A World History of Genocide and Extermination from Sparta to Darfur\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eHow Pol Pot Came to Power: Colonialism, Nationalism, and Communism in Cambodia, 1930-1975, \u003c\/i\u003epublished by Yale University Press.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Yale University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51985541464338,"sku":"9780300144345","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_a7a83ed2-9bbd-442b-8a14-13b148ee5de9.jpg?v=1769539470","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-pol-pot-regime-race-power-and-genocide-in-cambodia-under-the-khmer-rouge-1975-79-9780300144345","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}