Author: Francis Kingdon Ward
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
In Farthest Burma
Author: Francis Kingdon Ward
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
In Farthest Burma
Author: Francis Kingdon Ward
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Historical Dictionary of Burma (Myanmar)
Author: Donald M. Seekins
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1538101831
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 685
Book Description
Burma (Myanmar) is a Southeast Asian country that is emerging from crisis after more than a half century of hard-line military rule and cultural, diplomatic and economic isolation. With the dissolution of its military regime, the State Peace and Development Council, in 2011, a formally civilian but military-dominated constitutional government was inaugurated. By 2012, Burma’s president, retired General Thein Sein, had established a working relationship with Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, the leader of the country’s pro-democracy movement since 1988, and after a 2012 by-election she and members of her opposition party, the National League for Democracy (NLD), entered the new Union Parliament as legislators. However, even with the election victory of Daw Suu Kyi and the NLD in the General Election of November 2015, Burma faces daunting challenges: it is still one of the poorest countries in Southeast, fissured by longstanding ethnic conflicts that have made a nationwide peace agreement elusive and its people’s security and the environment are threatened by foreign economic exploitation. Religious discord is also widely evident, as Buddhist militants instigate violence against the country’s religious minorities, especially Muslims. Today Burma’s prospects are the most hopeful they have been for over half a century, as the country takes steps along the road to a more open society and economy. This edition of the Historical Dictionary of Burma (Myanmar) encompasses not only current developments, but also Burma’s over 1,500 years-old recorded history and the most important features of its cultures, ethnicity, religions, society and economy. This is done through achronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 700 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1538101831
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 685
Book Description
Burma (Myanmar) is a Southeast Asian country that is emerging from crisis after more than a half century of hard-line military rule and cultural, diplomatic and economic isolation. With the dissolution of its military regime, the State Peace and Development Council, in 2011, a formally civilian but military-dominated constitutional government was inaugurated. By 2012, Burma’s president, retired General Thein Sein, had established a working relationship with Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, the leader of the country’s pro-democracy movement since 1988, and after a 2012 by-election she and members of her opposition party, the National League for Democracy (NLD), entered the new Union Parliament as legislators. However, even with the election victory of Daw Suu Kyi and the NLD in the General Election of November 2015, Burma faces daunting challenges: it is still one of the poorest countries in Southeast, fissured by longstanding ethnic conflicts that have made a nationwide peace agreement elusive and its people’s security and the environment are threatened by foreign economic exploitation. Religious discord is also widely evident, as Buddhist militants instigate violence against the country’s religious minorities, especially Muslims. Today Burma’s prospects are the most hopeful they have been for over half a century, as the country takes steps along the road to a more open society and economy. This edition of the Historical Dictionary of Burma (Myanmar) encompasses not only current developments, but also Burma’s over 1,500 years-old recorded history and the most important features of its cultures, ethnicity, religions, society and economy. This is done through achronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 700 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture.
IN FARTHEST BURMA: THE RECORD OF AN ARDUOUS JOURNEY OF EXPLORATION AND RESEARCH.
Author: Francis Kingdon Ward
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780598527059
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780598527059
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Burma
Author:
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Burma
Author: Sir Herbert Thirkell White
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Burma
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Burma
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Modern Burma
Author: John LeRoy Christian
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520351851
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 499
Book Description
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1942. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520351851
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 499
Book Description
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1942. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived
Political Systems of Highland Burma
Author: E. R. Leach
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000324613
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
The main body of the book is concerned with the theme that empirical political behaviour among the Kachin is a compromise response to the polarised political doctrines of gumsa and gumlao.. Nearly one-third of this book consists of Chapter V entitiled 'The Structural Categories of Kachin Gumsa Society'. It is concerned with the interpretation of a series of verbal concepts and their interconnections. This long chapter is placed between a relatively short account of a particular Kachin community directly observed (Chapter IV) and a series of chapters (VI, VII, VIII) containing secondhand ethnographic and historical evidence.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000324613
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
The main body of the book is concerned with the theme that empirical political behaviour among the Kachin is a compromise response to the polarised political doctrines of gumsa and gumlao.. Nearly one-third of this book consists of Chapter V entitiled 'The Structural Categories of Kachin Gumsa Society'. It is concerned with the interpretation of a series of verbal concepts and their interconnections. This long chapter is placed between a relatively short account of a particular Kachin community directly observed (Chapter IV) and a series of chapters (VI, VII, VIII) containing secondhand ethnographic and historical evidence.
Journal of the Burma Research Society
Author: Burma Research Society
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Burma
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Burma
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
China's March Into the Tropics
Author: Herold Jacob Wiens
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
A study was made of the southward penetration of China's culture, peoples, and political control in relation to the non-Han-Chinese peoples of South China. The areas considered were the South China geographical environment, ancient tribal cultural complex of South China, history of South China tribal movements and migrations, Han-Chinese conquest of South China, Han-Chinese population movements and migrations, tribal uprisings and military colonization, frontier policy and tribal administration, ethic distributions and the frontier situation in modern China, and the future of South China frontier lands.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
A study was made of the southward penetration of China's culture, peoples, and political control in relation to the non-Han-Chinese peoples of South China. The areas considered were the South China geographical environment, ancient tribal cultural complex of South China, history of South China tribal movements and migrations, Han-Chinese conquest of South China, Han-Chinese population movements and migrations, tribal uprisings and military colonization, frontier policy and tribal administration, ethic distributions and the frontier situation in modern China, and the future of South China frontier lands.