Matches in Harvard for { <http://id.lib.harvard.edu/aleph/008371687/catalog> ?p ?o. }
Showing items 1 to 34 of
34
with 100 items per page.
- catalog abstract ""Lintner's account is interspersed with numerous anecdotes gleaned from personal research and interviews. Individuals are given features and personality in the complicated "jigsaw" of Burma's modern history. Beginning with the shock of Aung San's murder in 1947, Lintner retraces events from the 1920s that led to this disastrous event and continues his narrative up to the present, navigating the reader through webs of intrigue involving power, politics and drugs. Key players are the Rangoon government, the ethnic resistance, the Communists, the Kuomintang, and the US government."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11658745.
- catalog contributor b11658746.
- catalog coverage "Burma Ethnic relations.".
- catalog coverage "Burma History Autonomy and independence movements.".
- catalog coverage "Burma History History Autonomy and independence movements.".
- catalog coverage "Burma Politics and government 1948-".
- catalog created "1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1999.".
- catalog description ""Lintner's account is interspersed with numerous anecdotes gleaned from personal research and interviews. Individuals are given features and personality in the complicated "jigsaw" of Burma's modern history. Beginning with the shock of Aung San's murder in 1947, Lintner retraces events from the 1920s that led to this disastrous event and continues his narrative up to the present, navigating the reader through webs of intrigue involving power, politics and drugs. Key players are the Rangoon government, the ethnic resistance, the Communists, the Kuomintang, and the US government."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 530-543) and index.".
- catalog description "Prologue: Murder in the Secretariat -- 1. The Rangoon Government (1948-49) -- 2. The Burmese Jigsaw -- 3. "Peace Within One Year" (1950-51) -- 4. The Secret War (1951-55) -- 5. Retreat to the Jungle (1955-62) -- 6. The Military Takes Over (1962-68) -- 7. The Communist Juggernaut (1968-78) -- 8. Guns, Drugs and Ethnic Resistance (1976-87) -- 9. Burma in Upheaval (1987-89) -- 10. The Military Reasserts Power (1989-1997) -- Epilogue: A Deluge of Narcotics -- App. 2. Burma's Civil Strife -- A Chronology -- App. 3. Rebel Armies and Anti-Government Groups -- App. 4. Men and Women of Burma's Insurgency -- App. 5. Burma's "Thirty Comrades."".
- catalog extent "xiv, 558 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Burma in revolt.".
- catalog identifier "9747100789".
- catalog isFormatOf "Burma in revolt.".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Bangkok : Silkworm Press,".
- catalog relation "Burma in revolt.".
- catalog spatial "Burma Ethnic relations.".
- catalog spatial "Burma History Autonomy and independence movements.".
- catalog spatial "Burma History History Autonomy and independence movements.".
- catalog spatial "Burma Politics and government 1948-".
- catalog spatial "Burma.".
- catalog subject "DS530.4 .L55 1999".
- catalog subject "Minorities Burma.".
- catalog subject "Opium trade Burma.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Prologue: Murder in the Secretariat -- 1. The Rangoon Government (1948-49) -- 2. The Burmese Jigsaw -- 3. "Peace Within One Year" (1950-51) -- 4. The Secret War (1951-55) -- 5. Retreat to the Jungle (1955-62) -- 6. The Military Takes Over (1962-68) -- 7. The Communist Juggernaut (1968-78) -- 8. Guns, Drugs and Ethnic Resistance (1976-87) -- 9. Burma in Upheaval (1987-89) -- 10. The Military Reasserts Power (1989-1997) -- Epilogue: A Deluge of Narcotics -- App. 2. Burma's Civil Strife -- A Chronology -- App. 3. Rebel Armies and Anti-Government Groups -- App. 4. Men and Women of Burma's Insurgency -- App. 5. Burma's "Thirty Comrades."".
- catalog title "Burma in revolt : opium and insurgency since 1948 / Bertil Lintner.".
- catalog type "text".