David Brenner

Rebel Politics

A Political Sociology of Armed Struggle in Myanmar's Borderlands

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Produktbeschreibung

Rebel Politics analyzes the changing dynamics of the civil war in Myanmar, one of the most entrenched armed conflicts in the world. Since 2011, a national peace process has gone hand-in-hand with escalating ethnic conflict. The Karen National Union (KNU), previously known for its uncompromising stance against the central government of Myanmar...

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cornell University Press
• Seitenzahl: 162
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 261mm x 186mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 324g
• ISBN-13: 9781501740091
• ISBN-10: 1501740091
• Artikelnr.: 54813617

Autorenporträt

David Brenner

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Note on Citation
Introduction: Playing the Long Game
1. Teaching Revenge: Social Aspirations and the Fragmented Subject of Early
Modern Conduct Books
2. Feeling Revenge: Emotional Transmission and Contagious Vengeance in
Donne's Deaths Duell
3. Fantasizing about Revenge: Vagrancy and the Formation of the Social Body
in Shakespeare's 2 Henry VI and Nashe's The Unfortunate Traveller
4. Commemorating Revenge: Mourning, Memory, and Retributive Alternatives in
the English Interregnum
Afterword: What Remains of Civil Vengeance?
Bibliography
Index