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Burma or Myanmar? = the struggle for national identity /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Burma or Myanmar?/ editor, Lowell Dittmer.
Reminder of title:	the struggle for national identity /
other author:	Dittmer, Lowell.
Published:	Singapore ;World Scientific, : c2010.,
Description:	1 online resource (xiv, 380 p.) :ill. :
Subject:	National characteristics, Burmese. -
Subject:	Burma - Politics and government - 1962-1988. -
Online resource:	http://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/7812#t=toc
ISBN:	9789814313650 (electronic bk.)

Burma or Myanmar? = the struggle for national identity /
Burma or Myanmar?the struggle for national identity /[electronic resource] :editor, Lowell Dittmer. - Singapore ;World Scientific,c2010. - 1 online resource (xiv, 380 p.) :ill.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Burma, also known as Myanmar, strategically located between China and India, is one of the largest and most richly endowed states in Southeast Asia. Yet it remains both economically and politically underdeveloped. Why is this so? We argue that much of the reason has to do with an ongoing struggle for national identity. This struggle involves not only whether the state should be authoritarian or democratic, but how Burma's myriad ethnic minorities should be accommodated within it, what external reference national reference groups the country should identify and align with, and how it should mov

ISBN: 9789814313650 (electronic bk.)Subjects--Topical Terms:

943098
National characteristics, Burmese.
Subjects--Geographical Terms:

801235
Burma
--Politics and government--1962-1988.

LC Class. No.: DS530.65 / .B87 2010eb (Online)

Dewey Class. No.: 320.9591

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