The rise of French rule and the life of Thomas Caraman, 1840-87
by
Gregor Muller
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2006
Colonial Cambodia's "Bad Frenchmen" provides a captivating analysis of the gradual establishment of French colonialism in the late nineteenth century. Drawing on new materials from French, Vietnamese and Cambodian archives, it reconstructs a time during which France struggled to give meaning...