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State and Society in Modern Rangoon.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Asia's Transformations SeriesPublisher: Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2010Copyright date: ©2011Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (273 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781317601548
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: State and Society in Modern RangoonDDC classification:
  • 959.1
LOC classification:
  • JS7119.R36 S44 2014
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of illustrations -- Preface and acknowledgements -- Maps -- 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, 1988-2009 -- 9 Rangoon's new Buddhist landscapes -- Conclusion: state and society -- Notes -- Appendices -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: 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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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of illustrations -- Preface and acknowledgements -- Maps -- 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, 1988-2009 -- 9 Rangoon's new Buddhist landscapes -- Conclusion: state and society -- Notes -- Appendices -- Bibliography -- Index.

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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