In February 1944, a rag-tag collection of clerks, drivers, doctors, muleteers, and other base troops, stiffened by a few dogged Yorkshiremen and a handful of tank crews managed to hold out against some of the finest infantry in the Japanese Army, and then defeat them in what was…
Includes the texts of Treaty of Yandabo and a commercial treaty, both signed in 1826 between Burma and Great Britain.
Includes the texts of Treaty of Yandabo and a commercial treaty, both signed in 1826 between Burma and Great Britain.
This dissertation extends the conversations surrounding human rights literature and its intersection with transnational gender studies and rhetorical theories. It does so through extended analyses of literary accounts of human rights abuses from Iran, South Africa, and Burma inc…
A study of the Federated Shan States, 1922-1942, has been provided to gain insight into British policy and administration. In 1886, following the British defeat of Upper Burma, the Shan States were incorporated into the Province of Burma as a part of British India. The Shan Stat…
This dissertation develops a theory of culture which addresses the role cognition plays in the construction and perpetuation of ideologies and the role ideologies play in the formation of national identities and literatures. Using the work of George Lakoff and Mark Johnson as a …
This thesis studies the reportage in the English language press, primarily in Calcutta (but also covering Burma and Britain) of the Second and Third Anglo-Burmese Wars of 1852 and 1885, respectively. The wars were overwhelmingly the result of a combination of aggressive mercanti…
The Kuki-Chin languages constitute one of the most important subgroups of the great Tibeto-Burman family. This dissertation attempts to reconstruct the sound system of the ancestor language, Proto-Kuki-Chin, by comparing the initial consonants, rhymes, and nominal tones of a lar…
Max Weber presents a typology of ideal types of power---charismatic, traditional, and legal-rational. Men historically have been the basis for Weber's and other scholar's theories. Today, there are enough women in political positions to construct a typology on the effects of gen…
The International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 positions religious freedom at the center of U.S. foreign policy. The U.S. seeks as part of its foreign policy to impose sanctions, including the designation of certain egregious violators of religious freedom as Countries of Parti…