Weaving together a political analysis of heritage policies with an understanding of tourism as a series of intersecting cultural economies, this book explores a decade of world heritage and tourism in Angkor.

• Tim Winter is a Professor in the School of Social Sciences at The University of Western Australia. Having published widely on Angkor, he is editor of Expressions of Cambodia: the politics of tradition, identity and change (Routledge 2006), and Asia on Tour: exploring the rise of Asian Tourism, (Routledge, 2008). He is also editor of the ICOMOS journal Historic Environment.

1. From a Time of Conflict to Conflicting Times 2. 'Lost Civilization' to Free-Market Commerce: the Modern Social Life of Angkor 3. World Heritage Angkor 4. Remapping Angkor; from Landscape to Touristscape(s) 5. Angkor in the Frame 6. Collapsing Policies and Ruined Dreams 7. Conclusion - In (the) Place of Modernity Appears the Illusion of History