Research Catalog

Details

Description

1. xviii, 492 p. : maps; 24 cm.

Subject

1. Since 1948
2. Geschichte 1948-1990
3. Insurgency > Burma > History
4. 15.75 history of Asia
5. Ethnic relations > Political aspects
6. Insurgency
7. Politics and government
8. Aufruhr
9. Geschichte
10. Minderheitenpolitik
11. Nationalitätenpolitik
12. Opstanden
13. Etnische conflicten
14. Minorities
15. Nationalités > Birmanie > 1945-1990
16. Résistance politique > Birmanie
17. Burma > Politics and government > 1948-
18. Burma > Ethnic relations > Political aspects
19. Burma
20. Birma
21. Birmanie > Politique et gouvernement > 1948- ..
22. Birmanie > Histoire > Autonomie et mouvements indépendantistes > 1945-1990

Genre/Form

1. History.

Contents

1. pt. 1. The Roots of Conflict. 1. The Burmese Way to Stagnation and the Crisis of 1988. 2. The Peoples of Burma: A Historic and Ethnic Background. 3. 'Order Without Meaning': British Rule and the Rise of the National Liberation Movement. 4. War and Independence: 1942-48. 5. Insurgency as a Way of Life -- pt. 2. Insurrections in the Parliamentary Era. 6. 'The Final Seizure of Power': A Country Goes Underground. 7. Failure, Retrenchment and United Fronts: The Communist Movement: 1948-52. 8. The Battle for Kawthoolei: The Spread of Ethnic Rebellion. 9. 'Revisionism' and the 1955 Line: The Prospect of Peace. 10. The Collapse of Parliamentary Democracy: Ne Win Seizes Power -- pt. 3. Insurrections in the Ne Win Era. 11. Military Rule and the Peace Parley. 12. Cultural Revolution. 13. The North-East Command and the Four Cuts. 14. The Failure of U Nu's Parliamentary Democracy Party, Karen Unity and Emergence of the National Democratic Front. 15. The War in the North, Opium and the 1980/1 Peace Parley.
2. 16. The Nationalities Question -- pt. 4. The 1980s -- A Decade of Upheaval. 17. The Democracy Uprising and the CPB. 18. The 1989 CPB Mutinies: The End of the Road? 19. The War Goes On: The NDF and the KNU. 20. A New Cycle of Conflict? The 1990 General Election and the DAB -- Appendix: Millenarianism.

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Note

1. Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 429-481) and index.