Author: Sir Charles Haukes Todd CrosthwaitePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anglo-Burmese War, 3rd, 1885
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
The Pacification of Burma
Author: Sir Charles Haukes Todd CrosthwaitePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anglo-Burmese War, 3rd, 1885
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Brave Men of the Hills
Author: Parimal GhoshPublisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 9780824822071
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
Burma was conquered by Britain in the course of three wars fought in 1825, 1852 and 1885, and colonial rule was to last until 1948, when Burma regained independence. Throughout this period there were several armed uprisings against foreign rule and its social and economic ramifications. In Brave Men of the Hills Parimal Ghosh explores how peasant militancy was first generated and then crystallised into an open challenge to the colonial state. He focuses on two types of uprisings: the nineteenth-century resistance that followed the three wars of conquest, and Saya San's revolt of 1930-1933. Rather than seeing such Burmeses responses as being the symptom of a colonial "pacification" process, he argues that they were organic expressions of a momentum of resistance originating among a grassroots peasant base.
Queen Victoria's Wars
Author: Stephen M. MillerPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108490123
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Offers a revised and updated history of thirteen of the most significant British conflicts during the Victorian period.
Nationalism as Political Paranoia in Burma
Author: Mikael GraversPublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780700709809
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
This study examines the complex relationship between nationalism, violence and Buddhism in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Burma, bringing us to present-day Burma and the struggle by Aung San Suu Kyi for a new Burmese identity.
The Pacification of Burma
Author: Sir Charles CrosthwaitePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Burma
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
The Mists of Rāmañña
Author: Michael A. Aung-ThwinPublisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824874412
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Scholars have long accepted the belief that a Theravada Buddhist Mon kingdom, Rāmaññadesa, flourished in coastal Lower Burma until it was conquered in 1057 by King Aniruddha of Pagan—which then became, in essence, the new custodian and repository of Mon culture in the Upper Burmese interior. This scenario, which Aung-Thwin calls the "Mon Paradigm," has circumscribed much of the scholarship on early Burma and significantly shaped the history of Southeast Asia for more than a century. Now, in a masterful reassessment of Burmese history, Michael Aung-Thwin reexamines the original contemporary accounts and sources without finding any evidence of an early Theravada Mon polity or a conquest by Aniruddha. The paradigm, he finds, cannot be sustained. How, when, and why did the Mon Paradigm emerge? Aung-Thwin meticulously traces the paradigm's creation to the merging of two temporally, causally, and contextually unrelated Mon and Burmese narratives, which were later synthesized in English by colonial officials and scholars. Thus there was no single originating source, only a late and mistaken conflation of sources. The conceptual, methodological, and empirical ramifications of these findings are significant. The prevalent view that state-formation began in the maritime regions of Southeast Asia with trade and commerce rather than in the interior with agriculture must now be reassessed. In addition, a more rigorous look at the actual scope and impact of a romanticized Mon culture in the region is required. Other issues important to the field of early Burma and Southeast Asian studies, including the process of "Indianization," the characterization of "classical" states, and the advent and spread of Theravada Buddhism, are also directly affected by Aung-Thwin’s work. Finally, it provides a geo-political, cultural, and economic alternative to what has become an ethnic interpretation of Burma’s history. An electronic version of this book is freely available thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched, a collaborative initiative designed to make high-quality books open access for the public good. The open-access version of this book is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0), which means that the work may be freely downloaded and shared for non-commercial purposes, provided credit is given to the author. Derivative works and commercial uses require permission from the publisher.
A Civil Servant in Burma
Author: Herbert Thirkell WhitePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : British
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
British Burma in the New Century, 1895–1918
Author: Stephen L KeckPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137364335
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
British Burma in the New Century draws upon neglected but talented colonial authors to portray Burma between 1895 and 1918, which was the apogee of British governance. These writers, most of them 'Burmaphiles' wrote against widespread misperceptions about Burma.
Arakan (Rakhine State)
Author: Martin SmithPublisher:
ISBN: 9789070563691
Category : Communalism
Languages : en
Pages : 157
Book Description
The River of Lost Footsteps
Author: Thant Myint-UPublisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374707901
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
For nearly two decades Western governments and a growing activist community have been frustrated in their attempts to bring about a freer and more democratic Burma—through sanctions and tourist boycotts—only to see an apparent slide toward even harsher dictatorship. But what do we really know about Burma and its history? And what can Burma's past tell us about the present and even its future? In The River of Lost Footsteps, Thant Myint-U tells the story of modern Burma, in part through a telling of his own family's history, in an interwoven narrative that is by turns lyrical, dramatic, and appalling. His maternal grandfather, U Thant, rose from being the schoolmaster of a small town in the Irrawaddy Delta to become the UN secretary-general in the 1960s. And on his father's side, the author is descended from a long line of courtiers who served at Burma's Court of Ava for nearly two centuries. Through their stories and others, he portrays Burma's rise and decline in the modern world, from the time of Portuguese pirates and renegade Mughal princes through the decades of British colonialism, the devastation of World War II, and a sixty-year civil war that continues today and is the longest-running war anywhere in the world. The River of Lost Footsteps is a work both personal and global, a distinctive contribution that makes Burma accessible and enthralling.