The river of lost footsteps : histories of Burma / Thant Myint-U.
2006
DS530 .T43 2006 (Mapit)
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Title
The river of lost footsteps : histories of Burma / Thant Myint-U.
Author
Thant Myint-U.
Edition
1st ed.
ISBN
9780374163426 (alk. paper)
0374163421 (alk. paper)
0374163421 (alk. paper)
Publication Details
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2006
Language
English
Description
xiv, 361 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., map ; 24 cm.
Call Number
DS530 .T43 2006
Dewey Decimal Classification
959.1
Summary
Thant tells the story of modern Burma, in part through a telling of his own family's history, in an interwoven narrative that is by turns lyrical, dramatic, and appalling. His maternal grandfather, U Thant, rose from being the schoolmaster of a small town in the Irrawaddy Delta to become the UN secretary-general in the 1960s. And on his father's side, the author is descended from a long line of courtiers who served at Burma's Court of Ava for nearly two centuries. Through their stories and others, he portrays Burma's rise and decline in the modern world, from the time of Portuguese pirates and renegade Mughal princes through the decades of British colonialism, the devastation of World War II, and a sixty-year civil war that continues today and is the longest-running war anywhere in the world.--From publisher description.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [349]-361).
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Table of Contents
Downfall
Debating Burma
Foundations
Pirates and princes along the bay of Bengal
The consequences of patriotism
War and the glass palace chronicles
Mandalay
Transitions
Studying in the age of extreism
Making the battlefield
Alternative utopias
The tiger's tail
Palimpsest.
Debating Burma
Foundations
Pirates and princes along the bay of Bengal
The consequences of patriotism
War and the glass palace chronicles
Mandalay
Transitions
Studying in the age of extreism
Making the battlefield
Alternative utopias
The tiger's tail
Palimpsest.