Book Number: 5 638

Smith, Martin

BURMA: Insurgency and the Politics of Ethnicity

The popular uprising of 1988 swept away 26 years of military rule under General Ne Win in name only. As this book relates, the military remained in control and the future of Burma looks even more problematic.

With unparalleled command of largely inaccessible Burmese sources and interviews with many of the leading participants, Martin Smith charts the rise of modern political parties and unravels the complexities of the endless guerrilla wars waged by the Communist Party of Burma, the Karen National Union and a host of other ethnic nationalist movements.

It is essential reading for those interested in the conditions giving rise to guerrilla warfare, the particular character of communist and national liberation movements in Third World societies, and the impact of ethnicity on political conflict.

(London 1993)

510 pp., 2 pp. maps, 155 x 235 mm, pbk.

45.- US-Dollar

Burma:

• VISIONS OF SHWEDAGON

• PAGAN, THE ORIGINS OF MODERN BURMA

• IRRIGATION IN THE HEARTLAND OF BURMA: FOUNDATIONS OF THE PRE-COLONIAL BURMESE STATE

• GOLDEN TRIANGLE FRONTIER AND WILDERNESS

• FURTHER INDIA

• GAZETTEER OF BURMA, VOL. I & II

• THE KACHIN, RELIGION AND CUSTOMS

• A THOUSAND MILES ON AN ELEPHANT IN THE SHAN STATES

• ANCIENT BUDDHIST ART FROM BURMA

• FOLK ELEMENTS IN BURMESE BUDDHISM

• BURMESE BUDDHIST SCULPTURE - The Johan Möger Collection

• KING THEBAW AND THE ECOLOGICAL RAPE OF BURMA: The Political and Commercial Struggle Between British India and French Indo-China in Burma 1878-1886

• A THOUSAND LIVES AWAY: BUDDHISM IN CONTEMPORARY BURMA

• WHO KILLED AUNG SAN?

• BURMESE ADMINISTRATIVE CYCLES: ANARCHY AND CONQUEST, C. 1580-1760

• BURMA IN REVOLT

• AUNG SAN SUU KYI AND BURMA'S UNFINISHED RENAISSANCE

• FROM SANGHA TO LAITY

• FORGOTTEN LAND: A REDISCOVERY OF BURMA

• MANDALAY AND OTHER CITIES OF THE PAST IN BURMA

• THE PENTAGONAL MONUMENTS OF PAGAN

• SANSKRIT BUDDHISM IN BURMA

• THE INTIATION OF NOVICEHOOD AND THE ORDINATION OF MONKHOOD IN THE BURMESE BUDDHIST CULTURE

• RETURN VIA RANGOON: A young Chindit survives the jungle and Japanese captivity

• BURMA NATIONALISM AND IDEOLOGY - ANALYSIS OF SOCIETY CULTURE AND POLITICS

• THE STATE OF BURMA

• BURMESE TIMBER ELEPHANT

• A JOURNALIST, A GENERAL AND AN ARMY IN BURMA

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