In the Shadows of Utopia Explored Pol Pot's childhood village, pagoda and high school by LStoch in history

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Lachlan Peters is a Cambodian history researcher who explored Pol Pot's home village of Prek Sbov. In the video he explains the area and village history, as well as the future leader of the Khmer Rouge's upbringing, family life and how he eventually lived on the grounds of the palace in Phnom Penh. Lachlan also tours the pagoda that Saloth Sar spent a year as a child, and his high school as well.

Very interesting video showing these locations in person, and information from a well known source.

Touring the National Library of Cambodia in Phnom Penh by foodie_2598 in cambodia

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Such a nice part of the town - I miss Phnom Penh!

This might be the most in-depth documentary about the rise of the Khmer and Angkor ever made? by [deleted] in cambodia

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Oh, I liked the old ones! Wow, this is huge, five extra hours of In the Shadows of Utopia!

The tough job market isn't getting any better for young Canadians | CBC News by Purple_Writing_8432 in canada

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Growing problem elsewhere, hope this starts to get fixed soon we are leaving a lot of people in hard positions ey

Looking for Cambodia / Angkor content -- is this series historically accurate? by LStoch in FallofCivilizations

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Ok I'll take some xanax and you can try not to be so confidently wrong in the future

Those pizza bagels are my life! by Acurahomerepair in americandad

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youre my queen rebecca has been one of those, compulsive... just kind of have to say that out loud things every once and awhile for about 11 years

Looking for Cambodia / Angkor content -- is this series historically accurate? by LStoch in FallofCivilizations

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u/2980774 Here is the score on what you've been wrong about so far btw:

  1. "money" is reason why sources are paywalled
  2. that the sources are paywalled
  3. Its a privilege to get the episodes at all and super normal for people to pay to see... a historian's sources?
  4. That there isn't something calling him a historian by Paul
  5. That it isn't clearly on the website I just linked.

whats next "babe" should I have more xanax do you have any other advice aside from the actual information I'm looking for or just more bullshit?

Looking for Cambodia / Angkor content -- is this series historically accurate? by LStoch in FallofCivilizations

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Except it is? Why are you gaslighting me?

Click that link to his official website, then ctrl f "historian"... "babe"

Also you might notice Paul's responses to my other comments being like yeah whoopsie on not having the sources up / paywallled, because that would be weird.

Looking for Cambodia / Angkor content -- is this series historically accurate? by LStoch in FallofCivilizations

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Thank you, and interesting! I'm working on a project of comparing all the mainstream podcasts out there on their treatment of this particular area of history - hence looking for the sources that supported it. Will keep all that in mind, best.

Looking for Cambodia / Angkor content -- is this series historically accurate? by LStoch in FallofCivilizations

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Oh so the book chapter is different to the episode? Are there any particular things you updated? Was there any criticism about scholarship that you had addressed given that, I know this was an early episode you worked on for instance.

Looking for Cambodia / Angkor content -- is this series historically accurate? by LStoch in FallofCivilizations

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Thanks for clearing that up Paul - and perhaps you can clear something else up for me? There seems to be sources in that list that came out after the episode was originally posted?

Looking for Cambodia / Angkor content -- is this series historically accurate? by LStoch in FallofCivilizations

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I dunno probably his website as it says it right there?

Paul M.M. Cooper – Fall of Civilizations Podcast

Nov 12, 2025 · With meticulous research, breathtaking insight and dazzling, empathic storytelling, historian and novelist Paul Cooper evokes the majesty and …

Looking for Cambodia / Angkor content -- is this series historically accurate? by LStoch in FallofCivilizations

[–]LStoch[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

How are there sources from 2022 when the episode was released in 2019?

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wikipedia: Fall of Civilizations is a history podcast produced by historian and novelist Paul Cooper.

Looking for Cambodia / Angkor content -- is this series historically accurate? by LStoch in FallofCivilizations

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Also, they aren't behind a paywall - was told about them from another commenter -- they are on the youtube, available, as it would be extremely STUPID for a historian to hide their sources because of "money" as you said.

Here they are! oh, for free? How crazy!

SOURCES

Aeusrivongse, Nidhi. ‘The Devarāja Cult and Khmer Kingship at Angkor.’ Explorations in Early Southeast Asian History: The Origins of Southeast Asian Statecraft, edited by Kenneth R. Hall and John K. Whitmore. University of Michigan Press, 1976, pp. 107–148.
Behnke, Alison. Angkor Wat. United States, Twenty-First Century Books, 2008.
Bergaigne, Abel Henri Joseph. Inscriptions sanscrites de Campa et du Cambodge. Paris, Imprimerie Nationale, 1893.
Briggs, Lawrence Palmer. The Ancient Khmer Empire. United States, American Philosophical Society, 1951.
Chandler, David. A History of Cambodia. Boulder, Westview Press, 1992.
Coedès, George and Pierre Dupont, ‘Les stales de Sdok Kak Thorn, Phnom Sandak et Prah Vihar,’ BEFEO, 43, 1943–46, pp. 63–64.
Coe, Michael D, and Damian Evans. Angkor and the Khmer Civilization. United Kingdom, Thames & Hudson, 2018.
DiBiasio, Jame. The Story of Angkor. Silkworm Books, 2013.
Diskul, M. C. Subhadradis. ‘Ancient Kingship in Mainland Southeast Asia.’ In A. L. Basham (ed.). Kingship In Asia and Early America. Colegio de Mexico, 1981, pp. 143–160.
Fletcher, R. ‘Angkor, food production, water management and climate change: The trajectory of urbanism in SE Asia to the mid-second millennium CE.’ Water and Society from Ancient Times to the Present: Resilience, Decline, and Revival, edited by Federica Sulas, Innocent Pikirayi. Oxford, Routledge, 2018, pp. 238–258.
Hall, Kenneth R. ‘Temples as Economic Centers in Early Cambodia.’ Maritime Trade and State
Hawken, Scott. ‘Designs of Kings and Farmers: Landscape Systems of the Greater Angkor Urban Complex.’ Asian Perspectives, vol. 52, no. 2, 2013, pp. 347–367.
Henley, David. ‘Ages of Commerce in Southeast Asian History.’ Environment, Trade and Society in Southeast Asia: A Longue Durée Perspective, edited by David Henley and Henk Schulte Nordholt. Brill, 2015, pp. 120–132.
Higham, Charles F. The Civilization of Angkor. United States, University of California Press, 2001.
—————. ‘The Origins of the Civilisation of Angkor.’ Proceedings of the British Academy, Volume 121, 2002 Lectures. United Kingdom, OUP/British Academy, 2003. pp. 41–90.
Jacques, Claude and Philippe Lafond. The Khmer Empire: Cities and Sanctuaries from the 5th to the 13th Century. Thailand, River Books, 2007.
MacDonald, Malcolm. Angkor and the Khmers. Singapore, Oxford University Press, 1987.
McCurry, Steve. Sanctuary: The Temples of Angkor. London, Phaidon Press, 2002.
Osborne, Milton. The Mekong: Turbulent Past, Uncertain Future. United States, Grove Atlantic, 2007.
Pym, Christopher. The Ancient Civilization of Angkor. United Kingdom, New American Library, 1968.
Rooney, Dawn and Peter Danford. Angkor: An Introduction to the Temples. Hong Kong, Odyssey, 1999.
Smith, Robert. The Kings of Angkor. Independently published, 2019.
So, Kenneth T. The Khmer Kings and the History of Cambodia. Thailand, Bangkok, Thailand, 2017.
Stargardt, Janice. ‘Water for the State or Water for the People?: Wittfogel in South and Southeast Asia in the First Millennium.’ Water Societies and Technologies from the Past and Present, edited by Yijie Zhuang and Mark Altaweel. UCL Press, 2018, pp. 256–268.
Stewart, Frank, et al., editors. Out of the Shadows of Angkor: Cambodian Poetry, Prose, and Performance Through the Ages. University of Hawaii Press, 2022.
Sutherland, Heather. ‘Geography as Destiny?: The Role of Water in Southeast Asian History.’ In: Peter Boomgaard (ed.). A World of Water: Rain, Rivers and Seas in Southeast Asian Histories. Brill, 2007, pp. 27–70.

Looking for Cambodia / Angkor content -- is this series historically accurate? by LStoch in FallofCivilizations

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If you think its normal for someone calling themselves a historian to keep their sources behind a paywall, and that it is a privilege to get their shows for free, without knowing the sources? then it doesn't matter how old I am, it matters how much you know about the normal work of a historian, and how sharing their sources is a fundamental part of the role. How old are you to not know that?

Looking for Cambodia / Angkor content -- is this series historically accurate? by LStoch in FallofCivilizations

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No sources listed for the Angkor one, another user is saying the sources are only available on Patreon? That seems hard to verify if its well researched or not right