Modern Burma : A Survey of its Political and Economic Development / John LeRoy Christian.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Christian, John LeRoy, Author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (428 p.) : 1 frontisp.

Edition:

A Report in the International Research Series of The Institute of Pacific Relations, Reprint 2020

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

AUTHOR'S PREFACE

TABLE OF CONTENTS

MAPS

ILLUSTRATIONS

CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER II. BURMA: THE LAND AND THE PEOPLE

CHAPTER III. BURMA : ITS HISTORY

CHAPTER IV. ANGLO-FRENCH RIVALRY FOR BURMA

CHAPTER V. SEPARATION FROM INDIA

CHAPTER VI. THE GOVERNMENT OF BURMA

CHAPTER VII. AGRICULTURE

CHAPTER VIII. COMMERCE, INDUSTRY, AND LABOR

CHAPTER IX. SOCIAL BURMA

CHAPTER X. BURMA AND THE ARTS

CHAPTER XI. RELIGION IN BURMA

CHAPTER XII. THE BURMA ROAD

CHAPTER XIII. NATIONALISM; POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT SINCE 1937

CHAPTER XIV. FOREIGN RELATIONS

CHAPTER XV. BURMA AND THE EMPIRE

APPENDIX I. OFFICIAL STATEMENTS ON SEPARATION OF BURMA FROM INDIA

APPENDIX II. ANTI-SEPARATIONIST PAMPHLET

APPENDIX III. COMMODITY AND GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OF BURMA'S FOREIGN TRADE AND SHIPPING

APPENDIX IV

APPENDIX V. STATISTICS ON LITERACY AMONG NON-EUROPEANS IN BURMA

APPENDIX VI. THE U BA THI WAR RESOLUTION, MOVED IN THE BURMA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ON SEPTEMBER 2, 1940

APPENDIX VII. COPY OF A WAR POSTER ISSUED BY THE GOVERNMENT OF BURMA IN BURMESE WITH ENGLISH TRANSLATION

APPENDIX VIII

APPENDIX IX. ESTIMATED REVENUES AND EXPENDITURES OF THE GOVERNMENT OF BURMA FOR THE FISCAL YEAR 1938-39

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Okt 2020)

ISBN:

9780520351851

0520351851

OCLC:

1198931441