James A. Tyner is professor of geography at Kent State University. He is the author ofmore than a dozen books, including Genocide and the Geographical Imagination: Life and Death in Germany, China, and Cambodia.
A must-read for students of Cambodia and of stateled economic development. Tyner argues that KhmerRouge leaders inductively drew lessons from physical conditions and economic practice to shape thecontours of their revolutionary society, culminating in a specialized form of state capitalism. His analysiscomplicates what we know of the nature of Cambodian communism lurking behind the mass killings inDemocratic Kampuchea.' - Andrew Mertha, professor of government, Cornell University
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