True Love and Bartholomew: Rebels on the Burmese Border

by Jonathan Falla

Book Overview

The Karen, one of Burma's many minority peoples, have been waging an increasingly desperate war for autonomy against the Burmese government since 1949. Karen society in Burma has been little studied since the 1920s, and recent writers have been forced (by Burma's closed door policies) to concentrate on Karen refugee communities in Thailand. This book is a portrait of an ancient culture remolded to the purposes of ethnic rebellion. The picture is enriched...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521399203
• ISBN13: 9780521399203
• Release Date: May 2006
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 428 Pages
• Weight: 1.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"