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The river of lost footsteps : a personal history of Burma / Thant Myint-U.

By: Thant Myint-UContributor(s): Thant Myint-UMaterial type: Text

TextPublisher number: :Brijwasi Book Distributors | :H-87, Lalita Park laxmi Nagar Delhi 110092Publication details: London : :Faber and Faber, 2008Description: xii, 386 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, 1 map ; 20 cmISBN: 9780571217595Subject(s): History | 950 History of Asia | Southeast Asia | Burma -- History -- 1824-1948 | Burma -- History -- 1824-1948 | BurmaDDC classification: 959.1 THA

Contents:

The fall of the kingdom -- Debating Burma -- Foundations -- Pirates and princes along the Bay of Bengal -- The consequences of patriotism -- War -- Mandalay -- Transitions -- Studying in the age of extremism -- Making the battlefield -- Alternative utopias -- The tiger?s tail -- Palimpsest.

Summary: Burma is ruled by a harsh dictatorship unmoved by Western activists and sanctions. Drawing on his own family's stories and his years of hands-on political experience working with the UN, the author has written an illuminating account of how Burma's rich past informs its violent present, and of how the world might transform the country's future

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The fall of the kingdom --
Debating Burma --
Foundations --
Pirates and princes along the Bay of Bengal --
The consequences of patriotism --
War --
Mandalay --
Transitions --
Studying in the age of extremism --
Making the battlefield --
Alternative utopias --
The tiger?s tail --
Palimpsest.

Burma is ruled by a harsh dictatorship unmoved by Western activists and sanctions. Drawing on his own family's stories and his years of hands-on political experience working with the UN, the author has written an illuminating account of how Burma's rich past informs its violent present, and of how the world might transform the country's future

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