Phnom Penh
Subtitle: a cultural and literary history
By: Milton Osborne ; [foreword by William Shawcross]
Series: Cities of the imagination; Cities of the imagination
Publisher: Signal Books
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Oxford [U.K.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9781904955405
Subjects: History; Civilization; Phnom Penh; Kambodja; Sozialgeschichte; Kultur; Literatur
Description: Long neglected by Western travellers, Phnom Penh became Cambodias permanent capital in 1866. It has been home to Iberian missionaries and French colonialists, with a stunning mix of traditional palaces, Buddhist temples and transplanted French architecture. Author from Australian National University.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-226) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Foreword  -- William Shawcross -- Ch. 1.; title: A Personal Introduction to a Changing City -- -- Ch. 2.; title: Deciphering the Palimpsest: Finding the Past in the Present -- -- Ch. 3.; title: Iberian Alarums and Excursions -- -- Ch. 4.; title: Royal City, Colonial City -- -- Ch. 5.; title: Transformation: Building the New Phnom Penh in an Era of Colonial Good Feeling -- -- Ch. 6.; title: Phnom Penh before the Second World War: A Literary Way Station for the Angkor Temples -- -- Ch. 7.; title: Watershed Years, 1939-1953 -- -- Ch. 8.; title: "Sihanouk Time", 1953-1970 -- -- Ch. 9.; title: Three Years, Eight Months and Twenty Days: Phnom Penh under Pol Pot -- -- Ch. 10.; title: Writing Obituaries for "Old Phnom Penh" -- -- Ch. 11.; title: Ambiguous City in an Ambiguous Country, 1979-1993 -- -- Ch. 12.; title: Today's City: Somehow Hope Survives -- -- App. A.; title: The Royal Palace -- -- App. B.; title: The National Museum.