![]() | From Rice Fields to Killing Fields: Nature, Life, and Labor under the Khmer Rouge Subjects: Cambodia -- Politics and government -- 1975-1979; Parti communiste du Kampuchea; Communism -- Cambodia; Political violence -- Cambodia -- History -- 20th century; Between 1975 and 1979, the Communist Party of Kampuchea fundamentally transformed the social, economic, political, and natural landscape of Cambodia. During this time, as many as two million Cambodians died from exposure, disease, and starvation, or were executed at the hands of the Party. The dominant interpretation of Cambodian history during this period presents the CPK as a totalitarian, communist, and autarkic regime seeking to reorganize Cambodian society around a primitive, agrarian political economy. James A. Tyner is professor of Geography at Kent State University. He is the author of more than a dozen books, including Genocide and the Geographical Imagination: Life and Death in Germany, China, and Cambodia. |
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