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Author : Frederica M. Bunge
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Burma, a Country Study written by Frederica M. Bunge and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mary Patricia Callahan
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801472671
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (726 download)
Download or read book Making Enemies written by Mary Patricia Callahan and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Burmese army took political power in Burma in 1962 and has ruled the country ever since. The persistence of this government--even in the face of long-term nonviolent opposition led by activist Aung San Suu Kyi, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991--has puzzled scholars. In a book relevant to current debates about democratization, Mary P. Callahan seeks to explain the extraordinary durability of the Burmese military regime. In her view, the origins of army rule are to be found in the relationship between war and state formation.Burma's colonial past had seen a large imbalance between the military and civil sectors. That imbalance was accentuated soon after formal independence by one of the earliest and most persistent covert Cold War conflicts, involving CIA-funded Kuomintang incursions across the Burmese border into the People's Republic of China. Because this raised concerns in Rangoon about the possibility of a showdown with Communist China, the Burmese Army received even more autonomy and funding to protect the integrity of the new nation-state.The military transformed itself during the late 1940s and the 1950s from a group of anticolonial guerrilla bands into the professional force that seized power in 1962. The army edged out all other state and social institutions in the competition for national power. Making Enemies draws upon Callahan's interviews with former military officers and her archival work in Burmese libraries and halls of power. Callahan's unparalleled access allows her to correct existing explanations of Burmese authoritarianism and to supply new information about the coups of 1958 and 1962.
Author : Global Investment & Business Inc
Publisher : International Business Publications USA
ISBN 13 : 9780739724170
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (241 download)
Download or read book Myanmar written by Global Investment & Business Inc and published by International Business Publications USA. This book was released on 2006-04 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geography, history, people, language, culture, traditions, economy, government, politics, constitution, places to visit, info for travelers.Updated Annually
Author : Morten B. Pedersen
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742555594
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (555 download)
Download or read book Promoting Human Rights in Burma written by Morten B. Pedersen and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2008 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1988, when Burma's military rulers crushed a popular uprising, Western governments have promoted democracy as a panacea for the country's manifold development problems, from ethnic conflict to weak governance, human rights abuses, and deep-rooted, structural poverty. Years of escalating censure and sanctions, however, have left the military firmly entrenched in power, the opposition marginalized, and the general population suffering from deepening poverty. In the first book-length study of Western human rights policy in Burma, Morten B. Pedersen argues that Western democracy rhetoric has not supplied the solution to these problems. Each year, Burma's human and natural resources are further eroding, the HIV/AIDS epidemic is mounting, and the prospect of turning the situation around is becoming less and less likely. Based on extensive field research, Promoting Human Rights in Burma proposes an alternative model of "critical engagement" that emphasizes more pragmatic efforts to help bring a deeply divided society together and promote socioeconomic development as the basis for longer-term political change. Although the focus is squarely on Burma, the fallacies in Western policy thinking that this case study reveals, as well as the alternative policy framework it offers, have wider relevance for other poor, conflict-ridden countries on the periphery of the global political and economic system.
Author : Harry Ignatius Marshall
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (66 download)
Download or read book The Karen People of Burma: A Study in Anthropology and Ethnology written by Harry Ignatius Marshall and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Karen People of Burma: A Study in Anthropology and Ethnology" describes the history, geography, and traditions of the Karen, a group of Indo-Chinese tribes living principally in Burma. The author of this book, Reverend Harry Ignatius Marshall, who worked as a missionary in the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society, prepared an excellent and comprehensive review. Its historical value is still topical in our times.
Author : John William Henderson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Area Handbook for Burma written by John William Henderson and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard K. Diran
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN 13 : 9781841880327
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (83 download)
Download or read book The Vanishing Tribes of Burma written by Richard K. Diran and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 1997 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Study compelling photographs that will testify not only to Richard Diran's skill as an artist, but to his persistence in the face of the tribes' suspicion and fear of foreigners. At times, his undertaking was outright dangerous due to constant guerrilla activity, but the results are breathtaking, showcasing colorful and elaborate costumes and jewelry, rare instruments, and, above all, unforgettable faces, rich in expressiveness and beauty. "...spectacular photographs..."--Fiber Arts.
Author : Robert H. Taylor
Publisher : NUS Press
ISBN 13 : 9789971694661
Total Pages : 588 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (946 download)
Download or read book The State in Myanmar written by Robert H. Taylor and published by NUS Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ronald A. Morse
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Glimpses of the White Elephant written by Ronald A. Morse and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Judith L. Richell
Publisher : NUS Press
ISBN 13 : 9789971693015
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (93 download)
Download or read book Disease and Demography in Colonial Burma written by Judith L. Richell and published by NUS Press. This book was released on 2006-12-01 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disease and Demography in Colonial Burma is an examination of the factors that shaped demographic change in Burma between 1852 and 1941. Despite increasing contemporary interest in the historical demography of the non-European world, there has been little detailed exploration of Burma's extensive but problematic population records. Judith Richell developed a demographic framework for Burma by analysing late nineteenth century and early twentieth century census data, and used this information to analyse population change within the country. Colonial Burma experienced relatively high rates of mortality, and Richell related this phenomenon to nutrition, the development of sanitary and health services, the impact of migration from India, and agricultural change. She also assessed infant, child and adult mortality, the incidence of endemic diseases such as beri beri and malaria, and outbreaks of plague and cholera as well as the influenza pandemic of 1918. The data the author collected and her discussion of these topics provide an exceptionally valuable resource for scholars interested in Burma, demography and public health in Southeast Asia. Book jacket.
Author : Khaṅʻ Moṅʻ Kraññʻ (Ūʺ.)
Publisher : NUS Press
ISBN 13 : 9789188836168
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (361 download)
Download or read book Economic Development of Burma written by Khaṅʻ Moṅʻ Kraññʻ (Ūʺ.) and published by NUS Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together their own intimate knowledge of the country's problems and the possibilities that lie ahead, scholars attempt to analyze the main factors that have stood in the way of Burma's participation in the worldwide surge of economic growth in the second half of the twentieth century, and to devise ways in which the country can overcome these obstacles in the future.
Author : Thant Myint-U
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1466801271
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)
Download or read book Where China Meets India written by Thant Myint-U and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2011-09-13 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thant Myint-U's Where China Meets India is a vivid, searching, timely book about the remote region that is suddenly a geopolitical center of the world. From their very beginnings, China and India have been walled off from each other: by the towering summits of the Himalayas, by a vast and impenetrable jungle, by hostile tribes and remote inland kingdoms stretching a thousand miles from Calcutta across Burma to the upper Yangtze River. Soon this last great frontier will vanish—the forests cut down, dirt roads replaced by superhighways, insurgencies crushed—leaving China and India exposed to each other as never before. This basic shift in geography—as sudden and profound as the opening of the Suez Canal—will lead to unprecedented connections among the three billion people of Southeast Asia and the Far East. What will this change mean? Thant Myint-U is in a unique position to know. Over the past few years he has traveled extensively across this vast territory, where high-speed trains and gleaming new shopping malls are now coming within striking distance of the last far-flung rebellions and impoverished mountain communities. And he has explored the new strategic centrality of Burma, where Asia's two rising, giant powers appear to be vying for supremacy. At once a travelogue, a work of history, and an informed look into the future, Where China Meets India takes us across the fast-changing Asian frontier, giving us a masterful account of the region's long and rich history and its sudden significance for the rest of the world.
Author : David I. Steinberg
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195390679
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)
Download or read book Burma/Myanmar written by David I. Steinberg and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2010 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The crises that are Burma/Myanmar -- Important residues form the Precolonial period -- The Colonial Era's importance in understanding Burma/Myanmar today -- Independence and the civilian government (1948-1962) : mixed heritages -- The military coup, the Socialist Period (1962-1988), and the perpetuation of military rule -- The SLORC/SPDC Era (1988-present) : continuation of military power -- The nature of Burmese politics -- Issues in Myanmar's future.
Author : Burma Studies Group
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Bulletin of the Burma Studies Group written by Burma Studies Group and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ardeth Maung Thawnghmung
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 029932060X
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (993 download)
Download or read book Everyday Economic Survival in Myanmar written by Ardeth Maung Thawnghmung and published by University of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2019-01-22 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reforms in Myanmar (formerly Burma) have eased restrictions on citizens' political activities. Yet for most Burmese, Ardeth Maung Thawnghmung shows, eking out a living from day to day leaves little time for civic engagement. Citizens have coped with extreme hardship through great resourcefulness. But by making bad situations more tolerable in the short term, these coping strategies may hinder the emergence of the democratic values needed to sustain the country's transition to a more open political environment. Thawnghmung conducted in-depth interviews and surveys of 372 individuals from all walks of life and across geographical locations in Myanmar between 2008 and 2015. To frame her analysis, she provides context from countries with comparable political and economic situations. Her findings will be welcomed by political scientists and policy analysts, as well by journalists and humanitarian activists looking for substantive, reliable information about everyday life in a country that remains largely in the shadows.
Author : Uma Shankar Singh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Burma and India, 1948-1962 written by Uma Shankar Singh and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Martin Smith
Publisher : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
ISBN 13 : 9812304797
Total Pages : 109 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (123 download)
Download or read book State of Strife written by Martin Smith and published by Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. This book was released on 2007 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since independence in 1948, Burma has been the scene of some of the most-sustained and diverse ethnic insurgencies in the contemporary world. This study examines the dynamics of conflict that have caused internal wars to become so uniquely entrenched in one of Asia's most troubled lands. Against a backdrop of conflict, different nationality movements have been able to adapt and survive, utilizing the changing political, economic, and international conditions in the country. In the process, armed opposition became a way of life in the borderlands, while the central state became increasingly militarized. Burma's conflicts, however, have not been static. This study identifies five major cycles of conflict that have seen the national government transform from a parliamentary democracy at independence through Gen. Ne Win's "Burmese Way to Socialism" to the current military State Peace and Development Council. As the political impasse continues, ethnic ceasefires and open-door economic policies are changing the structures of conflict. In an overview of humanitarian and international dilemmas, the study concludes that conflict resolution-with integrated support from the international community-remains a primary need if Burma and its peoples are to achieve peace, democracy, and a stable nation-state.
