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Temple in the Clouds : Faith and Conflict at Preah Vihear /

Perched atop a five-hundred-meter cliff in the far north of Cambodia, Preah Vihear temple ranks among the world's holiest sites. It was built at a millennium ago as a shrine to the Hindu god Shiva by the same civilization that gave the world Angkor Wat. But modern times tragically transformed i...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Burgess, John, 1951-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Bangkok : River Books, [2015]
Subjects:
Prasat Prĕah Vihéar (Cambodia)
Temples, Khmer > Cambodia.
Cambodia > Description and travel.
Thailand > Boundaries > History.
Cambodia > Boundaries > Thailand.
Table of Contents:
  • The Lord of the Summit
  • The Temple in Its Golden Age
  • The Empire in Decline
  • The Curators from France
  • Creating a Dividing Line
  • The Place In Between
  • A New Flashpoint in the Cold War
  • The Fine Points of Jurisdiction
  • The Flow of Water and the Meaning of a Map
  • Cambodia Triumphant
  • Military High Ground in a Brutal Civil War
  • A Conflict Reborn
  • Faith, Tourism, and Armed Stand-Off Among the Ancient Stones.