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Cambodia and the West 1500–2000 Edited by T. O. Smith Cambodia and the West, 1500-2000 T. O. Smith Editor Cambodia and the West, 1500-2000 Editor T. O. Smith Huntington University Huntington, IN, USA ISBN 978-1-137-55531-1 ISBN 978-1-137-55532-8 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-55532-8 Library of Congress Control Number: 2017960190 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018 The author(s) has/have asserted their right(s) to be identified as the author(s) of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the pub- lisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institu- tional affiliations. Cover illustration: © Kat Kallou / Alamy Stock Photo Printed on acid-free paper This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by Springer Nature The registered company is Macmillan Publishers Ltd. The registered company address is: The Campus, 4 Crinan Street, London, N1 9XW, United Kingdom A cknowledgements I would like to express my deep felt gratitude to my dear late friend Dr Larry Butler, Emeritus Reader in Imperial History at the University of East Anglia (UEA), for his encouragement and support. Indeed, it was Larry who, in commenting upon a separate publishing idea, first encour- aged my production of an edited collection of essays concerning Cambodia’s often troubled interaction with the West. If all academics could be as generous with their time and as affirming in their correspon- dence, then the profession would be infinitely better for it. The many students that he inspired and the early career academics he mentored will dearly miss him. Shalom. Likewise, I owe a special note of thanks to a number of scholars and independent researchers from several disciplines working in the broad field of ‘Cambodia Studies’, who have shared contacts, and offered advice and encouragement to myself and the chapter authors, in particular: Penny Edwards (University of California, Berkley), Christopher Goscha (University of Quebec at Montreal), Elizabeth Guthrie-Higbee (University of Otago), Caroline Hughes (University of Bradford), Ben Kiernan (Yale University), Colin Meyn (The Cambodia Daily), Gregor Muller (The International Committee of the Red Cross), Milton Osborne (the Lowry Institute), Tobias Rettig (an independent research scholar based in Singapore), David Roberts (Loughborough University), Sebastian Strangio (the Overseas Press Club of Cambodia), Martin Thomas (University of Exeter) and John K. Whitmore (Research Associate, Center for Southeast Asia Studies, University of Michigan). v vi ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I am also deeply indebted to David Chandler, Emeritus Professor of History at Monash University, for his guidance and support of this book project. The final manuscript is certainly stronger for his friendship and direction. I would like to express my warmest thanks to all of the essay contribu- tors for not only producing sterling chapters, but also assisting with other issues and queries as needed. Indeed, when at the last minute one con- tributor was forced to pull out of this project, Trude Jacobsen selflessly stepped into the breach and produced a second chapter in order to meet the publication deadline. Academia is increasingly fraught with family, teaching and boorish-administrative burdens; thus it is a pleasure to be able bring together a highly qualified and collegiate group of contributors to work on a project much bigger than our own areas of research. To this end, I also need to thank my wife, Elizabeth, for all of her sterling support and encouragement. Finally, I am extremely grateful to the editorial staff at Palgrave Macmillan, especially Jenny McCall, Emily Russell, Carmel Kennedy and Angharad Bishop, for all of their help (and patience) with the production of this book. In addition, I would like to thank Palgrave Macmillan for permission to include a slightly amended version of my chapter, ‘The Sideshow: Cambodia 1945’ from within: T.O. Smith, Vietnam and the Unravelling of Empire: General Gracey in Asia 1941–1951 (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2014), as Chap. 5 of this collection. The publisher and I would also like to thank the following libraries, archives and copyright holders for permission to use material within Chap. 5: the trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King’s College, University of London; the Mountbatten Archives, University of Southampton Library; the Middle Eastern Centre Archives, St. Antony’s College, University of Oxford. Similarly, the publisher and I would like to thank Northern Illinois University Press (http://www.niupress.niu.edu/niupress/) for permis- sions regarding Chap. 6. The author of this chapter drew on some of the material from his book, Troubled Relations: The United States and Cambodia since 1870, by Kenton Clymer, Copyright ©2007 Northern Illinois University Press. (Troubled Relations is an abridged and updated edition of the author’s earlier two volume account published by Routledge). In addition, the publisher and I would like to express our gratitude for the use of photograph two in chapter one. This is included with the permis- sion of the Nalanda-Sriwijaya Archaeological Centre, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore, David Kyle Latinis staff archaeologist and ACKNOWLEDGEMENT S vii photographer (https://www.iseas.edu.sg/centres/nalanda-sriwijaya-cen- tre). I am very grateful to all of the copyright holders who have supported the use of information and quotation from their archives or publications in the chapters contained within this edition. c ontents 1 C ambodia and the West: An Introduction 1 T. O. Smith 2 The Coming of the West: European Cambodian Marketplace Connectivity, 1500–1800 7 Kenneth R. Hall 3 Cambodia in the Nineteenth Century: Out of the Siamese Frying Pan and into the French Fire? 37 John Tully 4 Cambodia in French Indochina, 1900–1945 65 Trude Jacobsen 5 A British Interlude: Allied Peace Enforcement, 1945–1947 87 T. O. Smith 6 I ndependence to Disaster, 1945–1975 115 Trude Jacobsen ix x CONTENTS 7 The United States and Cambodia, 1960–1991 147 Kenton Clymer 8 C ambodia and the United Nations 1980–2000 (and Beyond) 177 Fergal Quinn and Kevin Doyle Index 211 n c otes on ontributors Kenton Clymer is Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of History, Northern Illinois University. He has been a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC and has held Fulbright lectureships at Silliman University in the Philippines, the University of Indonesia, and Renmin University in Beijing. He is the author of seven books, three of which trace the history of US relations with Cambodia. Clymer’s two-volume history of US relations with Cambodia (2004) won the Robert H. Ferrell Book Prize from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations in 2005. His most recent book is A Delicate Relationship: The United States and Burma/Myanmar since 1945 (2015). Kevin Doyle was based in Cambodia between 1991 and 1993 and from 1999 to 2015. He has been the editor-in-chief of The Cambodia Daily newspaper and a Reuters news agency correspondent in Phnom Penh. His work has featured in TIME magazine and many other international news organisations including Al Jazeera and the BBC. A Nieman Fellow at Harvard University from 2010 to 2011, he is currently pursuing PhD research at Dublin City University, Ireland, focused on social media and democracy in Southeast Asia. Kenneth R. Hall is Professor of History at Ball State University. He spe- cialises in the comparative study of pre-1800 Indian Ocean maritime trade networks, and histories of India, Southeast Asia, and comparative Asian and non-Western societies and culture. He does crossover research in archaeology (currently working on archaeological sites in Cambodia and xi

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