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Chapters: Bogale, Myaungmya, Hinthada, Mawlamyinegyun, Kyonpyaw, Myanaung, Agat, Burma, Kangyidaut, Ngapudaw, Thabaung, Kyaunggon, Pathein District, Hinthada District, Zalun Township, Kyonpyaw Township, Hinthada Township, Kangyidaunk Township, Ngapudaw Township, Kyaunggon Township, Yekyi Township, Thabaung Township, Pathein Township, Pyapon, Ma-Ubin District, Bogale Township, Myaungmya Township, Pantanaw, Labutta Township, Pyapon District, Myaungmya District, Kyangin, Danubyu Township, Haigyi Island, Wakema Township, Lemyethna, Pyanmalot River, Nyaungdon, Myan Aung, Kanaung, Kyaiklat, Ingapu, Einme, Dedaye, Mawlamyinegyun Township, Laymyethna Township, Myanaung Township, Nyaungdon Township, Kyangin Township, Ingapu Township, Pantanaw Township, Kyaiklat Township, Einme Township, Ma-Ubin Township, Pyapon Township, Dedaye Township. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 132. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Bogale -The history of the Bogalay Township must begin with its first known inhabitants. The Mons are believed to have first inhabited the region in 3000 BC. Although most of the Mons records and writings have been destroyed through war or simply over time, spoken Burmese tradition states that the Mons began instituting Buddhist beliefs into their culture around 300 BC. By the 9th century the Mons are believed to have most of southern present day Myanmar. The Mons had a hybrid culture that combined Indian and Mon culture. After briefly losing power in the region to the Bagan Kingdom, the Mons regained control of the southern region of Myanmar in 1472 under King Dhammazedi. During King Dhammazedi 20 year reign from 1472-1492 the area currently encompassed by the Bogalay Township experienced a time of rapid economic growth and increase in cultural identity, with roots in Theravada Budd...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=15175938 ... Read more

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Portraits of Burmese pro-democracy students strugglingagainst that country's military regime along its borders. ... Read more

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The artist/photographer's breakthrough collection of color portrait photographs. Destined to be a 21st-century photography classic. Limited Edition of 1000 signed copies. A brilliant production by Chris Pichler: Oversize-volume format. Cloth boards with titles on cover and spine, as issued. Photographs by Chan Chao. Preface by Jeffrey Hoone. Afterword by Amitav Ghosh. In pictorial DJ with titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Presents the artist/photographer's uncanny, arresting and moving portraits in color of the Burmese people who are dedicated to the Resistance against the lawless Burmese government. "Chan Chao returned to Burma with the intention of rediscovering and reconnecting with the culture and people he had left years before. Twice denied a visa by the Burmese government, Chao eventually made his way to the Thai-Burmese border, where students had established several camps to launch guerrilla attacks against the military regime that controlled Burma, with the goal of restoring democracy to the country. Chao's portraits are remarkable for the sense of calm and tenderness that he draws out of each of his subjects. Each portrait is made from an intimate distance, generously placing each subject in the center of the frame surrounded by the soft focus of the lush jungle beyond. In many of his portraits the subjects hold simple objects: a sickle, a saw, a large piece of fruit, a live chicken. These simple objects provide an elegant solution to the problem of portraiture where individuals are often unsure of what to do with their hands, and in that uncertainty convey stiff and formal poses. But the objects are also disarming because they signal the activities of a simple agrarian life, not one of armed resistance. This contradiction plays heavily into the power that each image conveys, because each person that Chao photographs displays a remarkable range of honesty and emotion that seems to long for a return to the simple pleasures of family, work, and relaxation" (Jeffrey Hoone). The prestigious art critic of The New Yorker Magazine considered Chan Chao's contribution to the 2002 Whitney Biennial, the most prestigious contemporary American art exhibition of its kind, to be one of just two truly worthwhile reasons for seeing the Biennial at all: "Chan Chao's pictures remind me why I like art. Addressing his subjects with scrupulous formality, he extends his medium to see and say what there is to be seen and said" (Peter Schjeldahl). © 2006, ModernRare.com ... Read more

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The Indian sub-continent abounds in flora and fauna and still offers a ground for botanists, and ornithologists. ... Read more

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1 introduction and physical geology. 2 structure and tectonics of india. 3 review of indian stratigraphry. 4 the archaean group: peninsula. 5 the archaean group: extra-peninsula. 6 mineral riches of the archaeans. 7 the cuddapah ststem. 8 the vindhyan system. 9 the palabozoic group. 10 the gondwana group. 11 the upper carboniferous and permian systems. 12 the triassic ststem. 13 the jurassic ststem. 14 the cretaceous system. 15 the decan traps. 16 the tratiary group. 17 the eocene ststem. 18 the oligocene and lower miocene systems. 19 middle miocene to lower pleistocene. 20 the pleistocene and recent ... Read more

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The colonial census was a bureaucratic device which provided an essential abstraction from social reality, a 'statistical fix' designed to map individual social groups in space. This paper considers the contradictions associated with colonial knowledge systems as reflected in the census grafted onto Burmese society in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It attempts to chart the general adoption and adaptation, in the Burmese context, of a classificatory scheme which categorised labour as either productive or unproductive. Colonialism introduced new attitudes towards work and labour which reinforced patriarchal values which contrasted with more egalitarian Burmese socio-economic systems. The paper suggests that a simple classification of women workers as either productive or unproductive in the Burmese census between 1872 and 1931 resulted in the devaluation of their status as workers. This devaluation was a function of both real economic transformation taking place in the empire and changes in census classification, reflecting a gendering of occupations that undermined the cultural norms of Burmese society. The material result was that women became statistically less visible as economically productive workers. Such ascriptions of value to women workers were largely informed by moral considerations originating in England.England. he material affect of such devaluation of women's work meant that they became statistically invisible as economically productive worker. It is crucial to understand that economic devaluation of workers is not simply a function of census classification alone, but of the economic changes taking place in the Empire. Women workers as an economic category went through a series of sea saw identity, of being termed as productive and later as unproductive residual category in the workforce. Such adjudications of value to women workers were largely informed by moral considerations borrowed from England. ... Read more

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A boxed set of 6 wonderful books, great for learning goegraphy and history. The stamps included will help that tactile learner. Fantastic photography! ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from The Geographical Journal, published by Royal Geographical Society on July 1, 1996. The length of the article is 8038 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the author: KEY WORDS: Burma, forestry, political ecology, discourse, colonial.

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Title: Romancing colonial forestry: the discourse of 'forestry as progress' in British Burma.
Author: Raymond L. Bryant
Publication: The Geographical Journal (Refereed)
Date: July 1, 1996
Publisher: Royal Geographical Society
Volume: v162Issue: n2Page: p169(10)

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Chapters: Alaungdaw Kathapa National Park, Three Pagodas Pass, Hukawng Valley, Pangsau Pass, Diphu Pass, Shan Plateau, Gulf of Martaban. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 24. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Alaungdaw Kathapa National Park -The Patolon Forest Reserve was originally established on 21 July 1893 and was enlarged in 1917. The Taungdwin Reserved Forest was established effective 1 December 1893. In 1941, Taungdwin was made into a wildlife sanctuary by the British colonial government, and it was upgraded to a national park in 1984 by the Burmese government. The National Park was named after a shrine to one of Buddhas saintly disciples, Maha Kathapa (Maha Kassapa). This shrine dedicated to Alaungdaw Kathapa (literally, the embryo-Kathapa) is located inside the park boundaries. The shrine has a reclining figure called Kathapa and it is believed that his remains are kept under the shrine. The National Park includes the upper catchment basins of the Petpa, Patolon and Taungdwin rivers. The Petpa River is a tributary of the Patolon. The Patolon and Taungdwin rivers drain the eastern and western parts of the park, respectively. These rivers are north flowing in steep sided valleys separated from each other and from adjoining valleys to the west and east by long north-south ridges that rise to elevations from 2000 to over 4000 feet. These parallel ridges are a series of cuestas, characterized by fairly steep escarpments on the eastern face with a moderate slope on the west. The prominent ridge known as Mahudaung is the easternmost ridge in the park, and it forms the watershed between the broad settled valley of the Chindwin and the Patolon and the Petpa drainages to the west. Further west beyond the Taungdwin River, another high ridge, the Ponnyadaung, reaches a height of 426...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=18931250 ... Read more

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Title: Three Deltas: Accumulation and Poverty in Rural Burma, Bengal, and South India. (book reviews)
Author: Bimal Kanti Paul
Publication: The Geographical Review (Refereed)
Date: January 1, 1993
Publisher: American Geographical Society
Volume: v83Issue: n1Page: p98(2)

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Prize-winning journalist Chris Cox recounts his adventures tracking the heroin trail from the streets of Boston to the armed jungle camp of a rebel warlord and drug kingpin along the Thai border in Southeast Asia. "Part travel epic and part adventure story. . . . It's a journey you probably wouldn't want to make but might find fascinating to read about". THE BOSTON GLOBE.Amazon.com Review
Cox, a reporter for the Boston Herald, traveled intothe Shan State, the lawless region of northern Myanmar (or Burma) thatproduces much of the world's opium, to interview Khun Sa, the drugwarlord who built himself a jungle empire on drug profits and whostyled himself a Shan freedom-fighter. Khun Sa, who has since"retired" and lives in Yangon (formerly Rangoon), is acomplex character. This account of bearding the devil in his laircombines thorough research, high adventure, and prose pungent with theodor of poppies blooming on remote mountainsides. ... Read more

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Near fascinating...
...Cox's book is a great historical, sociological, political and geographical lesson. He is not full of himself as another stated here ("lofty opinion of himself"), in fact modest; nor a bad writer - some sharper editing might be needed here and there, but so what? As a bordering-on-elderly adventuress, I found this book very, very interesting.

Shawcross or Kaplan he ain't, but it's a good read
I just finished reading Cox's book, and while I heartily agree with the criticisms of his literary style (there is a reason that Cox writes for the Boston Herald rather than the Economist or Atlantic), I found parts of it to be very engaging, with only the second-to-last chapter being a disappointment.The epilogue in particular makes up for a lot of slow going towards the end of Cox's Shan State visit.While he attempts to keep the hero worship under control, Cox does not exhibit the maturity that a seasoned writer like William Shawcross does, nor is Cox as adventurous as he seems to believe; the current king of the hill among hardbitten, well-educated nightmare-travel journalists has to be Robert Kaplan, whose penchant for jumping into open graves ought to shame Cox.Nonetheless, I learned a great deal about the history of Burma and the autonomous states within what is now dubbed 'Myanmar'.Cox appears to have assiduously researched his destination, much more than I would expect the author of a ... paperback to have done.Provided one does not demand exhaustive political analyses and policy recommendations from every travel writer on the shelf, this is a light-weight adventure tale which happens to be shelved in the non-fiction category, and should not disappoint those looking for material concerning one of the few remaining mysteries among Southeast Asian countries.

C'mon, it's a great read!
Wow. Talk about a peltering! Poor Chris Cox writes a good and entertaining book about his looney adventure in Thailand and Burma, and the critics go ballistic. The venom is astonishing!

Well, the fact is that Chasing The Dragon is a pretty interesting tale, and certainly offbeat considering that it begins with a private mission to find MIAs in SE Asia ... in 1994!

But its more than simply a whacky story. There's a goldmine of history on Burma and Thailand, and I think Cox is one of the few writers to have actually put recent (post-1950) Burmese politics into a coherent framework.

Along the way Cox gets his interview with Khun Sa (the crux of his journalistic mission), and that's quite a coup. But that he also has some adventures; takes Xanax to adjust to his 12-hour jet lag; and describes some of the seamier corners of Asia is not outside the scope of the story. That's the way that travel in Asia often is!

Ecotourists might be offended. There is too much here that doesn't work for that strict Puritanical mindset ("Porno tapes as a gift to Khun Sa! My God!"). But you don't have to be a Robert Pelton fan to understand what's happening in Chasing The Dragon. You just have to have gone off the Lonely Planet path to a world that is markedly different from your own.

You can't go wrong when you're writing about Khun Sa
Although Cox's journalistic adventure narrative begins slowly, mired in pretentious descriptions and glamorized, over-dramatized, Hunter S. Thompson wannabe-gonzo bragging, it soon settles into a much moresophisticated groove, bolstered by Cox's significant grasp of Burmesehistory, Southeast Asian politics, and obligatory willingness to mix withthe locals, dabble in a few vices, and refreshingly steer clear of"ugly American" stereotypes and boorish behavior abroad.The meandering of the book, between wanderingThailand's red-lightdistrict, sharing the quest of obsessed American POW hunters, and a gooddeal of astute political analysis, can lose the reader a bit at times, butby the last hundred pages one is fully engrossed, engaged, and rooting forKhun Sa and his ragtag band of drug-financed outlaw good guy rebels, whilebooing and hissing the bureaucratic US officials who forego supporting theShan, valiant enemies of the odious Burmese regime, because of ourhypocritical and shortsighted "war" on drugs.Sadly, sinceCox published this ambitious work, Khun Sa has given up his guns and hispoppy fields, betrayed by his own Shan rebels beause of his half-Chineseancestry and perceived greed, and the old man is now doing lucrativehotel/casino business deals with the Rangoon regime.Oh well, at least Coxgot in one hell of a narrative description before this "druglord" decided to call it quits.Anyway, the relevance of the GoldenTriangle to the international smack trade is now fading away, as the AfghanTaliban find that they can endure their diplomatic isolation quite nicely,thank you, by flooding world heroin markets in the name of political Islam.

This book is a big letdown
After narrating myriad topographical and geographical details of the region in mostly unreadable, ostentatious prose, Cox finally finds his prey. And what does he do? He sits down and turns on his tape recorder while Khun Sa gives his boilerplate speech. Talk about a "shaggy dog story!" Talk about a waste of time! ... Read more

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:CHAPTER III.Cosmography—The Burman hells—Definition of a Nat by Ilesiod—Buddha —Gaudama—His probable history—Buddhism—Priests—Temples— Curious cave near Prome—Monasteries—Ceremonies—Funeral—Concluding remarks.The origin of the Burmese nation, like that of every other, is lost in the mists of antiquity. We know not whence we proceed, and the beginning and end of our being on this earth are alike wrapt in obscurity. But in addition to the unavoidable gloom that envelops the beginning of every nation, we have, amongst the Indian races, the additional uncertainty caused by a wild and incoherent cosmography, which, pervading the early portions of their national annals, renders it almost impossible to elicit any sort of narrative that would be satisfactory to the reader in an historical point of view. But, as everything connected with a nation and its belief, is interesting to the curious observer of mankind, it will be as well to listen to the wild and wondrous strain, the sounds of which still thrill and tremble upon the threshold of time. Here, then, is a short view of the Burmese cosmography, as a prelude to the ancient history of that country. We will listen to it from the mouth of Sangermano, one of the best and most modest of the exponents of Burmese antiquities. (1)According to the Burmese sacred books, there are five species of atoms. ; The first is an invisible permeating fluid, distinguishable only by the superior order of genii called Nat. The second species is that which may be seen dancing in the gleam of a streak of sunlight. The third species consists of the dust raised by the motion of animals, and vehicles from the earth. The fourth'e Burmese Empire. Compiled from native docu- ther Sangermano. Translated from his MS. byt Rome in 1833, in the inv... ... Read more

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Myanmar has experienced a seemingly endless series of conquerors, dating from prehistoric times through the reign of Kublai Khan's Mongol forces beginning in the late 1200s, all the way through the modern era, when it was subject to both British colonial control and invasion by the Japanese during World War II.

The History of Myanmar provides a detailed, historical overview of the key people, places, and events in this often-overlooked country's past and present. It examines the history of Myanmar, from Neolithic times to all of its ruling dynasties to the modern era in a chronological manner, providing a contextual framework for the further exploration of its complex history. This text pays special attention to the unique circumstances that led to the formation of the modern nation of Myanmar.

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William Gill (1843-1883) was an explorer and commissioned officer in the Royal Engineers. After inheriting a fortune from a distant relative in 1871, Gill decided to remain in the Army and use his inheritance to finance explorations of remote countries, satisfying his love of travel and gathering intelligence for the British government. He was awarded a gold medal by the Royal Geographical Society in 1879 for his scientific observations on his expeditions. This two volume work, first published in 1880, is Gill's account of his expedition from Chengdu, China through Sichuan, along the eastern edge of Tibet via Litang, to Bhamo in Burma, a region little explored by westerners before him. Gill describes in vivid detail the cultures, societies and settlements of the region, and their political and economic systems. ... Read more

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William Gill (1843-1883) was an explorer and commissioned officer in the Royal Engineers. After inheriting a fortune from a distant relative in 1871, Gill decided to remain in the Army and use his inheritance to finance explorations of remote countries, satisfying his love of travel and gathering intelligence for the British government. He was awarded a gold medal by the Royal Geographical Society in 1879 for his scientific observations on his expeditions. This two volume work, first published in 1880, is Gill's account of his expedition from Chengdu, China through Sichuan, along the eastern edge of Tibet via Litang, to Bhamo in Burma, a region little explored by westerners before him. Gill describes in vivid detail the cultures, societies and settlements of the region, and their political and economic systems. Volume 1 covers the area around Chengdu and includes an introductory chapter by the eminent orientalist Henry Yule (1820-1889). ... Read more