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Genre/Form: | History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Smith, Martin J. (Martin John), 1961- Burma. London ; Atlantic Highlands, N.J., USA : Zed Books, ©1991 (OCoLC)644011355 |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Martin J Smith |
ISBN: | 0862328683 9780862328689 0862328691 9780862328696 |
OCLC Number: | 24247148 |
Description: | xviii, 492 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Contents: | pt. 1. The Roots of Conflict. 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 -- pt. 2. Insurrections in the Parliamentary Era. 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 -- pt. 3. Insurrections in the Ne Win Era. 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 -- pt. 4. The 1980s -- A Decade of Upheaval. 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 -- Appendix: Millenarianism. |
Responsibility: | Martin Smith. |
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