A Daughter's Memoir of Burma /

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Wendy Law-Yone was just fifteen when Burma's military staged a coup and overthrew the civilian government in 1962. The daughter of Ed Law-Yone, the daredevil founder and chief editor of The Nation, Burma's leading postwar English-language newspaper, she experienced firsthand the perils and...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Law-Yone, Wendy (Autor)
Otros Autores: Steinberg, David
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2014]
Temas:
Biography & Autobiography > Political.
Biography and Autobiography > Political.
Immigrants > Great Britain > Biography.
Karen (Southeast Asian people) > Burma > Social conditions.
Newspaper editors > Burma > Biography.
Newspaper publishing > Burma > History > 20th century.
Phan, Zoya > Childhood and youth.
Social Science > Essays.
Social Science > Reference.
Social sciences > Essays.
Social sciences > Reference.
Women immigrants > Great Britain > Biography.
HISTORY / Asia / India & South Asia.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Foreword
  • Prologue
  • Part 1. Inside
  • 1. The Lost Nation
  • 2. Born That Way
  • 3. The Tiger's Footprints
  • 4. Theatre of War
  • 5. Birth of The Nation
  • 6. On the Green Couch
  • 7. Steppe by Steppe
  • 8. Muckracker, Kingmaker
  • 9. No Return
  • 10. When the Show Opens in Earnest
  • Part 2. Outside
  • 11. Man of La Mancha
  • 12. Golden Parasol
  • 13. Alban
  • 14. Nobody's Nation
  • Part 3. Homing
  • 15. The Old Road
  • 16. Mum
  • A Note on Sources
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index

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