Volume 55, Number 2 · February 14, 2008
The Revolt of the Monks
By Pankaj Mishra
Crackdown: Repression of the 2007 Popular Protests in Burma
a report by Human Rights Watch
131 pp., December 2007
Making Enemies: War and State Building in Burma
by Mary P. Callahan
Cornell University Press, 296 pp., $21.95 (paper)
The River of Lost Footsteps: A Personal History of Burma
by Thant Myint-U
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 400 pp., $15.00 (paper)
"Burma/Myanmar: The Role of the Military in the Economy"
by David I. Steinberg
Burma Economic Watch, Vol. 1 (2005)
Downtown Rangoon is a largely British creation, built on an east–west grid after Burma was subjugated by Britain in the late nineteenth century. The Japanese occupation and the British counterattack during World War II, which devastated large parts of Burma, did relatively little damage to Rangoon, the country's former capital and largest city. Not much new construction occurred after independence in 1948, a period in which the civilian government that had emerged from the war tried to build a united Burmese nation in the face of opposition from Communist insurgents and a variety of ethnic groups.
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