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	title:	The Making of Modern Burma
	author:	Thant Myint-U
	format:	Paperback
	publisher:	Cambridge University Press
	released:	March 26, 2001
	isbn:	0521799147
	isbn-13:	9780521799140

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opens up a whole new burma - Rated I really enjoyed this book. I'm familiar with Asian history, and have read bits and pieces about Burma, most recently various articles in the press about the political situtation there today. But this book, as the first 'new history' of the country in a long time, forces us to think about Burma today in a very different light. What it does most of all is open up Burma's almost unknown recent past, the 'kingdom' of Burma that was lost a hundred years ago, and then examines the ways in which that loss has been felt ever since. Far from being an isolated hermit kingdom, Burma in the nineteenth century was an ambitious, modernizing state. The mystery of why the British then sought not only to annex this state but to turn it upside down, is a central theme of this book. Also, its full of great stories and anecdotes for anyone interested in British colonial history. I hope this book will help educate people who are concerned about the troubles in that country, but dont really have the historical background to really analyse the situation properly. If you're worried that it will be too academic, its not, its a fairly easy and often entertaining read.

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opens up a whole new burma - Rated 5/5
I really enjoyed this book. I'm familiar with Asian history, and have read bits and pieces about Burma, most recently various articles in the press about the political situtation there today. But this book, as the first 'new history' of the country in a long time, forces us to think about Burma today in a very different light. What it does most of all is open up Burma's almost unknown recent past, the 'kingdom' of Burma that was lost a hundred years ago, and then examines the ways in which that loss has been felt ever since. Far from being an isolated hermit kingdom, Burma in the nineteenth century was an ambitious, modernizing state. The mystery of why the British then sought not only to annex this state but to turn it upside down, is a central theme of this book. Also, its full of great stories and anecdotes for anyone interested in British colonial history. I hope this book will help educate people who are concerned about the troubles in that country, but dont really have the historical background to really analyse the situation properly. If you're worried that it will be too academic, its not, its a fairly easy and often entertaining read.