Burma In Revolt
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Burma In Revolt
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Author : Bertil Lintner
language : en
Publisher: Silkworm Books
Release Date : 1999-05-01
Burma In Revolt written by Bertil Lintner and has been published by Silkworm Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-05-01 with Political Science categories.
In 1948, Burma was a promising young democracy with a bustling free market economy and a standard of living that surpassed nearly all of its other Asian neighbours. Fifty years later, Burma is one of the poorest nations in the world, with a military dictatorship in Rangoon and 50,000 armed rebels from a myriad of ethnic insurgency groups. In this well documented and detailed account, well-known Burma journalist Bertil Lintner explains the nexus between Burma’s booming drug production and its insurgency and counter-insurgency, providing an answer to the question of why Burma has been unable to shake off thirty-five years of military rule and build a modern, democratic society. Lintner’s lively account is interspersed with numerous anecdotes gleaned from personal research and interviews. Individuals are given features and personality in the complicated “jigsaw” of Burma’s modern history. Beginning with the shock of Aung San’s murder in 1947, Lintner retraces events from the 1920s that led to this disastrous event and continues his narrative up to the present, navigating the reader through webs of intrigue involving power, politics and drugs. Key players are the Rangoon government, the ethnic resistance, the Communists, the Kuomintang, and the US government. This revised and updated edition includes five extensive appendixes for serious readers and Burma scholars alike: a list of acronyms, a chronology of events, a who’s who of important figures in Burma’s insurgency, an annotated list of rebel armies, and biographical sketches of the Thirty Comrades. “Bertil Lintner, one of Burma’s (Myanmar’s) closest and most incisive observers, has written an important book. It is more than a study of the drug trade and the minority rebellions. It is in a sense a history of Burma since independence. No one concerned with Burma, with Southeast Asia, or with international narcotics affairs can neglect this work”. — David I. Steinberg, Georgetown University
Burma In Revolt
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Author : Bertil Lintner
language : en
Publisher: Westview Press
Release Date : 1998-10-05
Burma In Revolt written by Bertil Lintner and has been published by Westview Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-10-05 with History categories.
The product of thirteen years of research, interviews, and experience, this is the most authoritative book ever written on the interrelationship of drugs, insurgency, counterinsurgency, and politics in Burma. Widely respected as one of the world’s leading experts on Burma, Bertil Lintner has drawn on his extensive travels and personal meetings with rebel commanders, ethnic leaders, and other key figures to present a compelling and comprehensive picture of politics and society in a poor and bitterly divided country.Fighting between the central government and myriad political and ethnic insurgencies entered its forty-seventh year in 1994, with no solution in sight. While other countries in the region are developing into freer, more open societies, once-democratic Burma has been ruled by a medieval military dictatorship since 1962. The complex nexus between the drug problem, military rule, and Burma’s civil war has rarely been considered when international narcotics agencies have evaluated the drug problem in the Golden Triangle. Consequently, millions of dollars have been wasted in a misguided effort to treat the problem as a localized vice, rather than addressing the underlying historical, social, and economic factors behind the drug explosion. Meanwhile, opium production is increasing steadily, year by year.This book aims to explore the inextricable links among Burma’s booming drug production, insurgency, and counterinsurgency and to explain why the country has been unable to shake off over thirty years of military rule to build a modern democratic society. Burma’s ethnic strife, the author argues, is not a peripheral problem confined to the country’s border areas. Without a lasting solution to ethnic divisions and the civil war they have fueled, Burma will remain a source of political despair—and the opium it grows will continue to flood the markets of the world.
Than Shwe
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Author : Benedict Rogers
language : en
Publisher: Silkworm Books
Release Date : 2010-05-01
Than Shwe written by Benedict Rogers and has been published by Silkworm Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-05-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Than Shwe is one of the world’s most notorious dictators, presiding over a military regime that persists in repressing and brutalizing its own people. Until now, his story has not been told. Than Shwe: Unmasking Burma’s Tyrant provides the first-ever account of Than Shwe’s journey from postal clerk to dictator, analyzing his rise through the ranks of the army, his training in psychological warfare, his belief in astrology, his elimination of rivals, and his ruthless suppression of dissent. Drawing on the insights of Burma Army defectors, international diplomats, and others, Benedict Rogers provides a compelling account of the reclusive and xenophobic character of Than Shwe, and life in Burma under his rule. What others are saying This book explains General Than Shwe’s extraordinary rise to power—and why it is futile to expect that any kind of “engagement” with his regime will lead to meaningful change and even a modest democratization of this troubled Southeast Asian country. Than Shwe is a tyrant, and tyrants don’t negotiate their own demise. Anyone who still believes that is possible should read this book.—Bertil Lintner, author of Burma in Revolt. In this path-breaking book, Benedict Rogers shines a light into some of the darkest corners of Burma’s military dystopia, and in so doing exposes the cunning rise of a man who wraps himself in the trappings of Burma’s ancient kings. Meticulously researched, powerfully written, and provocatively argued, this book deserves a place on the bookshelf of all of those interested in Burma, in Southeast Asia, and in the eternal struggle against tyranny and injustice.—Sean Turnell, author of Fiery Dragons: Banks, Moneylenders and Microfinance in Burma Highlights - A timely and penetrating inside look at the life of Burma’s reclusive leader - Powerful exposé of the international crimes commited by the Than Shwe regime - Vivid account of Than Shwe’s rise through the ranks of the military, the corruption of his family, the widespread rights violations inflicted on his people, and the lives of his rivals, cronies, and potential successors
Outrage
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Author : Bertil Lintner
language : en
Publisher: Kiscadale Publications
Release Date : 1990
Outrage written by Bertil Lintner and has been published by Kiscadale Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Burma categories.
The Burma Cry
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Author : Aung Cin Win Aung
language : en
Publisher: Yoma Publishing
Release Date : 1996
The Burma Cry written by Aung Cin Win Aung and has been published by Yoma Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Poetry categories.
Aung San Suu Kyi And Burma S Struggle For Democracy
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Author : Bertil Lintner
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011
Aung San Suu Kyi And Burma S Struggle For Democracy written by Bertil Lintner and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Gives an account of Burma's pro-democracy movement and Aung San Suu Kyi's prominent leadership role
Brave Men Of The Hills
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Author : Parimal Ghosh
language : en
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Release Date : 2001-06-01
Brave Men Of The Hills written by Parimal Ghosh and has been published by University of Hawaii Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-06-01 with History categories.
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.
Aung San Suu Kyi
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Author : Whitney Stewart
language : en
Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books
Release Date : 1997-01-01
Aung San Suu Kyi written by Whitney Stewart and has been published by Twenty-First Century Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-01-01 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
A biography of the Burmese leader who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991 while under house arrest.
The Making Of Modern Burma
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Author : Thant Myint-U
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2001-03-26
The Making Of Modern Burma written by Thant Myint-U and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-03-26 with History categories.
"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 the borders of the state to the social structure of the countryside to the very notion of a Burmese or Burman identity, are largely the creations of the nineteenth century, a period of great change, away from the Ava-based polity of early modern times, and towards the 'British Burma' of the 1900s. The book provides a sophisticated and much-needed account of the period, and as such will be an important resource for policy-makers and students as a basis for understanding contemporary politics and the challenges of the modern state. It will also be read by historians interested in the British colonial expansion of the nineteenth century."--BOOK JACKET.
Burma
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Author : D. G. E. Hall
language : en
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
Release Date : 2013-04-16
Burma written by D. G. E. Hall and has been published by Read Books Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-16 with History categories.
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