Phnom Penh then and now / Michel Igout ; photographs by Serge Dubuisson ; with a foreword by Prince Norodom Sihanouk
Imprint
Bangkok : White Lotus, 1993
Descript
x, 179 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 30 cm
CONTENT
Birth of Phnom Penh in the fifteenth century -- Cambodia in 1859, at King Norodom's succession -- Phnom Penh during the reign of King Norodom -- Major construction work in the reigns of King Sisowat and King Monivong, 1906-1939 -- Modern city in the making, 1939-1958 -- Phnom Penh becomes a true capital under Prince Norodom Sihanouk in the 1960s -- From war to reconstruction: Phnom Penh since 1970