Cultivating Cotton in the Red Earth of Kampong Cham: Self-Sufficiency, Alternative Modernities and Wartime Refugees in Cold War Cambodia, 1955–1970.
This article argues that Cambodia's postcolonial cotton 'push' was integral to its ultra nationalist vision of modernity and how Cambodia sought to survive within an increasingly acerbic Cold War landscape. In turn, Cambodia's attention to its cotton and textile industry transformed its foreign poli...
| Publicado en: | Asian Studies Review Vol. 46; no. 3; pp. 510 - 530 |
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