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Language: en
Pages: 298
Authors: Michael A. Aung-Thwin
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-03-31 - Publisher: University of Hawaii Press

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Pagan: The Origin of Modern Burma offers major contributions in three areas: the manner in which it integrates original, indigenous source material with social
Women in Modern Burma
Language: en
Pages: 198
Authors: Tharaphi Than
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-11-07 - Publisher: Routledge

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This book challenges the popular notion that Burmese women are powerful and are granted equal rights as men by society. Throughout history Burmese women have be
A History of Modern Burma
Language: en
Pages: 748
Authors: John Frank Cady
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1958 - Publisher: Ithaca, N.Y., Cornell U. P

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A History of Modern Burma
Language: en
Pages: 401
Authors: Michael W. Charney
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-01-22 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Burma has lived under military rule for nearly half a century. The results of its 1990 elections were never recognized by the ruling junta and Aung San Suu Kyi,
Modern Buddhist Conjunctures in Myanmar
Language: en
Pages: 225
Authors: Juliane Schober
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-11-30 - Publisher: University of Hawaii Press

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For centuries, Burmese have looked to the authority of their religious tradition, Theravada Buddhism, to negotiate social and political hierarchies. Modern Budd