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200 10$aState and society in modern Rangoon /$fDonald M. Seekins
205   $a1st ed.
210  1$aLondon ;$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d2011.
215   $a1 online resource (273 pages) $cillustrations, maps
225 1 $aRoutledge Studies in Asia's Transformations
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320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
327   $aIntroduction : the "abode of the king" and the "city of peace" -- 1. The Shwedagon Pagoda : sacred space and power politics -- 2. The rise and fall of British Rangoon, 1824-1941 -- 3. Landscapes of resistance in colonial Rangoon -- 4. The city from war to military rule, 1941-1958 -- 5. The city under military rule, 1958-1988 -- 6. Covert and overt resistance to the state, 1962-1976 -- 7. Rangoon from popular uprising to pacification, 1987-1988 -- 8. Transforming Rangoon, 1988-2009 -- 9. Rangoon's new Buddhist landscapes -- Conclusion : state and society.
330   $aWhile most of Asia's major cities are increasingly homogenized by rapid economic growth and cultural globalization, Rangoon, which is Burma's former capital and largest city, still bears the imprint of a unique and often turbulent history. It is the site of the Shwedagon Pagoda, a focus of Buddhist pilgrimage and devotion since the early second millennium C.E. that continues to play a major role in national life. In 1852, the British occupied Rangoon and made it their colonial capital, building a modern port and administrative center based on western designs. It became the capital of independent Burma in 1948, but in 2005 the State Peace and Development Council military junta established a new, heavily fortified capital at Naypyidaw, 320 kilometers north of the old capital. A major motive for the capital relocation was the regime's desire to put distance between itself and Rangoon's historically restive population. Reacting to the huge anti-government demonstrations of "Democracy Summer" in 1988, the new military regime used massive violence to pacify the city and sought to transform it in line with its supreme goal of state security. However, the "Saffron Revolution" of September 2007 showed that Rangoon's traditions of resistance reaching back to the colonial era are still very much alive.
410  0$aRoutledge studies in Asia's transformations.
607   $aRangoon (Burma)$xPolitics and government
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