The Making of Modern Burma

by Thant Myint-U

Book Overview

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 identity, are largely the creations of the nineteenth century...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521799147
• ISBN13: 9780521799140
• Release Date: March 2001
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"