Myanmar in the fifteenth century : a tale of two kingdoms / Michael A. Aung-Thwin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Aung-Thwin, Michael, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Burma--History--To 1824.

Burma.

History.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xiv, 369 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2017]

Contents:

Introduction: The study of Ava and Pegu

Part I. The Kingdom of Ava (1364-1527). 1. Prelude to Ava ; 2. The Ava convention ; 3. Ava's founding fathers ; 4. The consolidation of Ava ; 5. The fifteenth century and the apogee of Ava ; 6. Ava : Pagan writ small ; 7. The last decades and the decline of Ava ; 8. Ava's legacy in Myanmar's history

Part II. The Kingdom of Pegu (1353-1538). 9. The "Pegu convention" and the "Mon narrative" ; 10. Sources for the reconstruction of Pegu ; 11. The origins of Pegu and its founding fathers ; 12. Yazadarit the Unifier ; 13. The golden years at Pegu : Shin Saw Bu, Dhammazedi, and Bannya Ram ; 14. The historical legacy of the first Pegu dynasty

Conclusion: An "upstream-downstream" dualism : time, space, and type in Myanmar's history.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780824867836

0824867831

OCLC:

961801855