WHY VIETNAM INVADED CAMBODIA: Political Culture and the Causes of War (Stephen J. Morris, Stanford University Press, 1999)
Chapter 1 - Roots of a Conflict: The Vietnamese Communists and the Cambodians, 1930-70
...early 19th century, having already absorbed large tracts of what is
now southern Vietnam from Cambodia... the Vietnamese turned Cambodia
into a protectorate... end of 1834, the emperor in Hue instituted direct rule and turned Cambodia into a Vietnamese province.
...the Vietnamese tried to impose their own culture upon the
Cambodians. ...attempted to change Cambodian clothing, language, and
agriculture. ... This cultural arrogance differentiated Vietnamese
imperialism from Siamese imperialism.
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