{"product_id":"9780300144345","title":"The Pol Pot Regime: Race, Power, and Genocide in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, 1975-79","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Deeply detailed, meticulously reported. . . . Important [and] valuable.” \u003ci\u003eNation\u003cbr\u003e\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Perhaps the most complete [account of Pol Pot’s terror] and the closest to Cambodian sources.” \u003ci\u003eEconomist\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“One of the most important contributions to the subject so far.” R. B. Smith, \u003ci\u003eAsian Affairs\u003cbr\u003e\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[A] detailed and chilling history.\" \u003ci\u003eAsiaweek\u003cbr\u003e\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Yale University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50108108472560,"sku":"9780300144345","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780300144345","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}