Donald M. Seekins

State and Society in Modern Rangoon (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Rangoon, a city of many identities, has since colonial times been a focus of conflict between the vertical power of the (colonial, military-run) state and the horizontal power and coping strategies of its residents.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Juni 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317601531
• Artikelnr.: 41090634

Autorenporträt

Donald M. Seekins is Professor of Southeast Asian Studies at Meio University in Okinawa, Japan, and has been researching the contemporary politics and society of Burma since 1988. His books include The Disorder in Order: the Army-State in Burma since 1962 (2002), The Historical Dictionary of Burma (Myanmar) and Burma and Japan since 1940: From 'Co-Prosperity' to 'Quiet Dialogue' (2007).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: the 'Abode of the King' and the 'City of Peace' 1. The Shwedagon Pagoda
Sacred Space and Power Politics 2. The Rise and Fall of British Rangoon, 1824
1941 3. Landscapes of Resistance in Colonial Rangoon 4. The City from War to Military Rule, 1941
1958 5. The City under Military Rule, 1958
1988 6. Covert and Overt Resistance to the State, 1962
1976 7. Rangoon from Popular Uprising to Pacification, 1987
1988 8. Transforming Rangoon, 1988
2008 9. Rangoon's New Buddhist Landscapes