1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911077138903321

Titolo

Expenses of the commissioners of the Court of Claims. Communication from the President of the United States, transmitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation for the Department of Justice for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1926, together with a letter from the Director of the Bureau of the Budget. February 26, 1926. -- Read ; referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, DC : , : [publisher not identified], , 1925

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (2 pages)

Collana

Senate document / 68th Congress, 2nd session. Senate ; ; no. 215

[United States congressional serial set] ; ; [serial set no. 8413]

Altri autori (Persone)

CoolidgeCalvin <1872-1933.>

Soggetti

Budget - Law and legislation

Wages

Courts - Officials and employees

Legislative materials.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Batch processed record: Metadata reviewed, not verified. Some fields updated by batch processes.

FDLP item number not assigned.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911149448303321

Titolo

Burma or Myanmar? : the struggle for national identity / / editor, Lowell Dittmer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Singapore ; ; Hackensack, N.J., : World Scientific Pub. Co., c2010

ISBN

1-283-14474-3

9786613144744

981-4313-65-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (396 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

DittmerLowell

Disciplina

320.9591

Soggetti

National characteristics, Burmese

Burma Politics and government 1988-

Burma Foreign relations 1948-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Burma vs. Myanmar : what's in a name? / Lowell Dittmer -- Voting and violence in Myanmar : Nation building for a transition to democracy / Ian Holliday -- Ethnic conflict in Burma : the challenge of unity in a divided country / Tom Kramer -- Relieving Burma's humanitarian crisis / Christina Fink -- Daw Aung San Suu Kyi : a Burmese dissindent democrat / Kyaw Yin Hlaing -- Looking inside the Burmese military / Win Min -- Naypyidaw vs. Yangon : the reasons behind the Junta's decision to move the Burmese capital / Daniel Gomà€ -- Burma's poverty of riches : natural gas and the voracious state / Sean Turnell -- Myanmar/Burma : international trade and domestic power under an "isolationist" indentity / Jalal Alamgir -- China-Burma relations : China's risk, Burma's dilemma / Min Zin -- India's unquenched ambitions in Burma / Renaud Egreteau -- Burma and ASEAN : a marriage of inconvenience / Stephen McCarthy -- Conclusion / Lowell Dittmer.

Sommario/riassunto

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