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The making of modern Burma /
"Burma has often been portrayed as a timeless place, a country of egalitarian Buddhist villages, ruled successively by autocratic kings, British colonialists and, most recently, a military dictatorship. The Making of Modern Burma argues instead that many aspects of Burmese society today, from t...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
©2001.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: the fall of Mandalay
- Kings and distant wars
- The Irrawaddy valley in the early nineteenth century
- The Court of Ava
- Empire and identity
- The grand reforms of King Mindon
- Revolt and the coming of British rule
- Reformists and royalists at the court of King Thibaw
- War and occupation
- A colonial society
- Conclusion: the making of modern Burma.