Violence and the civilising process in Cambodia /

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Author / Creator:	Broadhurst, Roderic G., author.
Imprint:	Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Description:	xviii, 362 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Violence -- Cambodia -- History -- 20th century. Social aspects. Violence. Cambodia -- History -- 20th century. Cambodia -- Social aspects -- 20th century. Cambodia. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10534297

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Varying Form of Title:	Violence and the civilizing process in Cambodia
Other authors / contributors:	Bouhours, Thierry, author. Bouhours, Brigitte, author.
ISBN:	9781107109117 1107109116
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-357) and index.
Summary:	"in this insightful new study tracing the history of violence in Cambodia, the authors evaluate the extent to which Elias's theories can be applied in a non-western context. Drawing from historical and contemporary archival sources, constabulary statistics, victim surveys and newspaper reports, Broadhurst, Bouhours and Bouhours chart trends and forms of violence throughout Cambodia from the mid nineteenth century through the present day. Analyzing periods of colonization, anti-colonial wars, interdependence, civil war, the revolutionary terror of the 1970s and post-conflict development, the authors assess whether violence has decreased and whether such a decline can be attributed to Elias's civilizing process, identifying a series of universal factors that have historically reduced violence." --

Table of Contents:

Introduction
1. Resistance of a peasant society
2. Patterns of pre-modern criminality
3. Development of the colonial state: modernisation and control
4. The 'golden age' of the Protectorate 1920-40
5. The anti-colonial war 1940-55
6. The golden years of Sihanoukism 1955-66
7. Criminal states and civil wars 1967-75
8. The perfect storm: de-civilising state and society 1975-9
9. Reconstruction in the midst of a civil war: pariahs, bandits, and international accomplices 1979-91
10. Crime and violence in contemporary Cambodia 1991-2012
11. Civilising processes and violence in contemporary Cambodia
12. Discussion
References
Index

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