Coercion and the colonial state, 1826-1941 -- The Japanese occupation, 1941-43 -- Resistance and the United Front, 1943-45 -- Making peace and making armies, 1945-48 -- Insurgency and state disintegration, 1948-50 -- Warfare and army building, 1950-53 -- Warriors as state builde…
"Burma's colonial past had seen a large imbalance between the military and civil sectors. That imbalance was accentuated soon after formal independence by one of the earliest and most persistent covert Cold War conflicts, involving CIA-funded Kuomintang incursions across the Bur…
"Burma's colonial past had seen a large imbalance between the military and civil sectors. That imbalance was accentuated soon after formal independence by one of the earliest and most persistent covert Cold War conflicts, involving CIA-funded Kuomintang incursions across the Bur…
In modern scholarship, there has been no fully fledged commentary written on the Letter of Aristeas, an important work of Hellenistic Judaism in Alexandria, which contains the earliest version of the translation of the Septuagint. This volume fills that gap. The book will be of …
