Title Burma : insurgency and the politics of ethnicity / Martin Smith

Edition Second edition Published Dhaka : The University Press ; Bangkok : White Lotus ; London : Zed Books, 1999

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MELB	959.105 Smi/Bia 1999		AVAILABLE

Description xxi, 521 pages : maps ; 24 cm Series Politics in contemporary Asia Politics in contemporary Asia. Contents 1. The Burmese Way to Stagnation and the Crisis of 1988 -- 2. The Peoples of Burma: A Historic and Ethnic Background -- 3. 'Order Without Meaning': British Rule and the Rise of the National Liberation Movement -- 4. War and Independence: 1942-48 -- 5. Insurgency as a Way of Life -- 6. 'The Final Seizure of Power': A Country Goes Underground -- 7. Failure, Retrenchment and United Fronts: The Communist Movement: 1948-52 -- 8. The Battle for Kawthoolei: The Spread of Ethnic Rebellion -- 9. 'Revisionism' and the 1955 Line: The Prospect of Peace -- 10. The Collapse of Parliamentary Democracy: Ne Win Seizes Power -- 11. Military Rule and the Peace Parley -- 12. Cultural Revolution -- 13. The North-East Command and the Four Cuts -- 14. The Failure of U Nu's Parliamentary Democracy Party, Karen Unity and Emergence of the National Democratic Front -- 15. The War in the North, Opium and the 1980/1 Peace Parley -- 16. The Nationalities Question -- 17. The Democracy Uprising and the CPB -- 18. The 1989 CPB Mutinies: The End of the Road? -- 19. The War Goes On: The NDF and the KNU -- 20. A New Cycle of Conflict? The 1990 General Election and the DAB -- 21. The 1990s: Deadlock or the Dawning of New Realities? -- Appendix. Millenarianism Analysis Burma Colonialism Ethnic groups History Overseas item Revolution Notes "Second (updated) edition." Originally published: 1st ed. London ; Atlantic Highlands, N.J., USA : Zed Books, c1991 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 457-510) and index Subject Burma -- Ethnic relations. Insurgency -- Burma -- History. SUBJECT Burma http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80021691 -- Ethnic relations. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00005646 Myanmar http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80021691 -- Ethnic relations -- Political aspects. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00005648 Myanmar -- Politics and government -- 1948- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85018126 Author Schmolke, Klaus-Peter. LC no. 00108370 ISBN 1856496597 1856496600 9748434818

Other Titles Insurgency and the politics of ethnicity

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