Cambodia (Cultures of the World)

This 2017 edition is part of Marshall Cavendish's long-running "Cultures of the World" reference series, a 144-page country-profile volume by Sean Sheehan covering Cambodia's geography, history, government, economy, and daily cultural life for school and library readers. The "Cultures of the World" series is a well-established educational reference format used across hundreds of country titles, structured to give students a compact, illustrated overview of a nation's people and customs rather than a narrative history. This edition situates Cambodia within its Southeast Asian context, covering the legacy of the Angkor era, French colonial rule, the Khmer Rouge period, and the country's postwar recovery and modern Buddhist-majority society, alongside everyday topics like food, festivals, and family life. As a reference title rather than a work of original scholarship, its value lies in making Cambodia's culture and history digestible for a young or general-interest audience through a standardized, comparative format shared with the series' many other country volumes.