| Pt. I | Angkor and Memories of Angkor | 1 |
| The Legend of the Leper King (1978) | 3 |
| An Eighteenth Century Inscription from Angkor Wat (1970) | 15 |
| Maps for the Ancestors (1975) | 25 |
| Pt. II | Cambodia before the French | 43 |
| Normative Poems (Chbap) and Pre-colonial Cambodian Society (1982) | 45 |
| An Anti-Vietnamese Rebellion in Early Nineteenth-Century Cambodia (1973) | 61 |
| Songs at the Edge of the Forest (1978) | 76 |
| Going through the Motions (1979) | 100 |
| Royally Sponsored Human Sacrifices in Nineteenth-Century Cambodia (1973) | 119 |
| Pt. III | The Colonial Era | 137 |
| Assassination of Resident Bardez (1981) | 139 |
| The Duties of the Corps of Royal Scribes (1975) | 159 |
| The Kingdom of Kampuchea, March-October 1945 (1985) | 165 |
| Cambodian Royal Chronicles (Rajabangsavatar) (1976) | 189 |
| Pt. IV | Cambodia since 1975 | 205 |
| Transformation in Cambodia (1976) | 207 |
| Revising the Past in Democratic Kampuchea (1982) | 215 |
| Seeing Red (1982) | 233 |
| A Revolution in Full Spate (1982) | 255 |
| Cambodia in 1984 (1984) | 276 |
| Pt. V | History and Tragedy | 295 |
| The Tragedy of Cambodian History (1979) | 297 |
| The Tragedy of Cambodian History Revisited (1994) | 310 |