Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Foreword by Professor David Chandler Chapter 2 Author's Preface Chapter 3 Acknowledgments Chapter 4 Introduction: A Faustian Bargain Chapter 5 Abbreviations Chapter 6 August 1863: Gunboat Diplomacy on the Mekong Chapter 7 The Cambodian Dark Ages Chapter 8 Take the road traveled by the ancestors Chapter 9 An Unequal Struggle Chapter 10 The Great Rebellion Chapter 11 "The King is a mere puppet" Chapter 12 Economic and Social Development in the Nineteenth Century Chapter 13 Sisowath "might almost be a Frenchman" Chapter 14 Patterns of Rural Violence and Resistance Chapter 15 The Great Peasant Revolt: The 1916 Affair Chapter 16 "Kind of Belle Époque:" The Monarchy and Politics between the Wars Chapter 17 The Mission Civilisatrice: Health, Education and the Restoration of Angkor Chapter 18 Sons of Toil or Sons of Angkor Chapter 19 Boom, Bust and Social Development Between the Wars Chapter 20 A Dictatorship of Police and Civil Servants Chapter 21 King Rubber Chapter 22 The Fall of France and the Franco-Thai War Chapter 23 A Little Tiger on the Throne Chapter 24 The Vichy Regime: Authoritarianism, Khmérité and Revolt Chapter 25 The "Kingdom of Kampuchea" and the Return of the French Chapter 26 The Parliamentary Experiment Chapter 27 An Asian Alsace-Lorraine Chapter 28 Absolutism Versus Parliamentary Democracy Chapter 29 The Khmer Issarak Insurrection Chapter 30 Sihanouk Triumphant: "The Royal Crusade for Independence" Chapter 31 Conclusion: In the Image of France? Chapter 32 Glossary Chapter 33 Bibliography Chapter 34 Index Chapter 35 About the Author

About the Author

John A. Tully is a Lecturer, Faculty of Arts, Victoria University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

Reviews

This is the first comprehensive work in any language on Cambodia as a 90-year French colony. Summing Up: RECOMMENDED. All levels.
*CHOICE*

France on the Mekong is a straightforward narrative that traces the political and social developments of Cambodia under French rule. Tully's well-researched and comprehensive treatment of the subject…is a much-needed contribution to the literature on the subject.
*H-France Review*

John Tully's masterful fine grained study of the French Colonial era in Cambodia fills a wide lacuna in Cambodian historiography and is also a marvelous read...he provides one of the fairest and most nuanced pictures of the French geste that I have encountered in over forty years of immersion in the subject.
*From the Foreword, Professor David Chandler, Washington, D.C. >*