in France. In World War II (1939-45), the Japanese occupied Cambodia (1940). Although the country formally remained a French protectorate, the Japanese occupation forces turned Cambodia into a military base, forced the population to construct military installations, intensively exploited the country...
Although Cambodia had a rich and powerful past under the Hindu state of Funan and the Kingdom of Angkor, by the mid-19th century the country was on the verge of dissolution. After repeated requests for French assistance, a protectorate was established in 1863. By 1884, Cambodia was a virtua...
Although Cambodia had a rich and powerful past under the Hindu state of Funan and the Kingdom of Angkor, by the mid-19th century the country was on the verge of dissolution. After repeated requests for French assistance, a protectorate was established in 1863. By 1884, Cambodia was a virtua...
King Sihanouk, through skillful maneuvering, managed to gain Cambodia's independence peacefully in 1953. During World War II (1939-1945), Japanese forces entered French Indochina but left the compliant French administration in place. King Norodom Sihanouk On the verge of defeat in 1945, the Japane...
TheFrenchadministration took on the role of Saṅgha patron in part to foster European models of scientific education but also, fearingSiameseinfluence, to stem the flow of Khmer Buddhist literati to Bangkok. The modernist agenda also countered the influence of cosmologically oriented Buddhism in th...
The network was originally designed and constructed by the French during the protectorate period to link the agricultural hinterland with the port of Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City, Viet.). Consequently, the system did not serve Cambodia as a whole. Extensive land tracts in the northern, ...
The French Protectorate of Cambodia formed part of the French Colonial Empire in Southeast Asia. After the French establishment of a colony in Cochinchina (present-day southern Vietnam) in 1867, Pierre-Paul de La Grandière, colonial governor of Cochinchina, was carrying out plans to expand Fre...
interregnum, 1887-1894; French Protectorate, 1893-1954 Zakarine 1894-1904 Sisavang Vong 1904-1941,1945-1959 Japanese occupation, 1941-1945 Savang Vatthana 1959-1975,d.1978/80/84? Communist "People's"Republic, 1975As the French in Vietnam advanced against Siam, they endeavored to extend "pro...
Cambodia continued as a protectorate of France from 1867 to 1953, administered as part of the colony of French Indochina, though occupied by the Japanese empire from 1941 to 1945.Between 1874 and 1962, the total population increased from about 946,000 to 5.7 million....
After the end of the 90 years of French protectorate[35], Cambodia has changed five different political regimes that have deeply affected its economic, political and socio-cultural construct to the disadvantage of its population. The first 10 years after independence (1955-1965) ‘ the Kingdom ...