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Burma, Kipling and western music : the riff from Mandalay by Andrew Selth
Call Number: View online [ANU staff and students only] and Menzies Rare book +2547718
Publication Date: 2017
This book explores how Western perceptions of Burma were influenced by the popular music of the day. From the First Anglo-Burmese War of 1824-6 until Burma regained its independence in 1948, more than 180 musical works with Burma-related themes were written in English-speaking countries, in addition to the many hymns composed in and about Burma by Christian missionaries.
Burmese haze : US policy and Myanmar's opening-and closing by Erin Murphy
Call Number: Menzies DS530.65 .M86 2022
Publication Date: 2022
"Burmese Haze", a play on George Orwell's novel, "Burmese Days," based on his experience as a police officer in the country, is told from the viewpoint of Erin Murphy, a CIA analyst and an Asian Affairs specialist, who had unparalleled access to the key decisionmakers in policy and politics and experienced many of these events up close.
Conflict in myanmar ; war, politics, religion by Nick Cheesman (Editor) and Nicholas Farrelly (Editor)
Call Number: View online [ANU staff and students only] and MENZIES DS530.4 B972 2016
Publication Date: 2016
Each of its seventeen chapters, from participants in the 2015 Myanmar Update conference held at the ANU, builds on theoretically informed, evidence-based research to grapple with significant questions about ongoing violence and political contention. The authors offer a variety of fresh views on the most intractable and controversial aspects of Myanmar's long-running civil wars, fractious politics and religious tensions.
Constitutionalism and Legal Change in Myanmar by Andrew Harding (Editor); Khin Khin Oo (Editor)
Call Number: View online [ANU staff and students only]
Publication Date: 2017
Myanmar's Constitution of 2008 was the 'road map' for the reform process that began in 2011. Despite extensive criticism of this Constitution for its emphasis on the role of the military, much progress has been made towards constitutional government and law reform. This book is an attempt to gauge the extent and potential for the entrenchment of constitutionalism in Myanmar in a rapidly changing environment.
Myanmar's transition : openings, obstacles and opportunities by Nick Cheesman, Monique Skidmore and Trevor Wilson
Call Number: Menzies DS530.65 .M926 2011
Publication Date: 2012
Myanmar began a process of political, administrative and institutional transition from 30 January 2011. After convening the parliament, elected in November 2010, the former military regime transferred power to a new government headed by former Prime Minister (and retired general), U Thein Sein.
Myanmar transformed? : people, places and politics by Edited by Justine Chambers, Gerard McCarthy, Nicholas Farrelly and Chit Win.
Call Number: MENZIES DS530.65 .M93 2018
Publication Date: 2018
The triumph of Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy at the 2015 election was supposed to mark the consolidation of a reformist trajectory for Myanmar society. This book takes stock of the mutations, continuities and fractures at the heart of today’s political and economic transformations.
Opposing the rule of law: How Myanmar's courts make law and order by Nick Cheesman
Call Number: View online [ANU staff and students only]
Publication Date: 2015
The rule of law is a political ideal today endorsed and promoted worldwide. Or is it? In a significant contribution to the field, Nick Cheesman argues that Myanmar is a country in which the rule of law is 'lexically present but semantically absent'. Cheesman explains how and why institutions animated by a concern for law and order oppose the rule of law.
The Other Ladies of Myanmar by Jennifer Rigby
Call Number: Chifley HQ1735.7 .R54 2018
Publication Date: 2018
In Myanmar, Aung San Suu Kyi is often not called by her name. Instead, she is just "The Lady," an honorific nickname. The Lady's reputation has only tarnished in recent years in the face of the persecution of her country's Rohingya minority. This book presents some of Myanmar's other ladies: women from across the social spectrum who are changing their country, and its perceptions of gender, from the ground up.
The politics of love in Myanmar : LGBT mobilization and human rights as a way of life by Lynette J. Chua
Call Number: View online [ANU staff and students only]
Publication Date: 2019
This book offers an intimate ethnographic account of a group of LGBT activists before, during, and after Myanmar's post-2011 political transition. Lynette J. Chua explores how these activists devoted themselves to, and fell in love with, the practice of human rights and how they were able to empower queer Burmese to accept themselves, gain social belonging, and reform discriminatory legislation and law enforcement.
Profiles of Myanmar personages by Myint Zan
Call Number: MENZIES DS530.52 M99 2022
Publication Date: 2022
Biography of U Pe Maung Tin (24 April 1888-22 March 1973); U Myint Thein (22 February 1900-3 October 1994); Zawgyi (U Thein Han) (7 April 1907-29 September 1990); U Thant (22 January 1909-25 November 1974); Minthuwun (10 February 1909-15 August 2004); Maung Htin (21 March 1909- 29 January 2006); General Ne Win (6 July 1910-5 December 2002); U Nyo Mya (10 April 1914- 29 September 1985); U Aung San ( 13 February 1915 - 19 July 1947) and Ronald Dworkin (11 December 1931-14 February 2013); Ludu Daw Amar (29 November 1915-7 April 2008); Dagon Taryar (10 May 1919 -9 August 2013).