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010			_a 2006009199
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050	0	0	_aDS530 _b.T43 2006
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100	0		_aThant Myint-U.
245	1	4	_aThe river of lost footsteps : _bhistories of Burma / _cThant Myint-U.
250			_a1st ed.
260			_aNew York : _bFarrar, Straus and Giroux ; _a[Vancouver, B.C.?] : _bDistributed in Canada by Douglas & McIntyre Ltd., _c2006.
300			_axiv, 361 p., [8] p. of plates : _bill., map ; _c24 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [349]-361)
505	0		_aDownfall -- Debating Burma -- Foundations -- Pirates and princes along the bay of Bengal -- The consequences of patriotism -- War and the glass palace chronicles -- Mandalay -- Transitions -- Studying in the age of extremism -- Making the battlefield -- Alternative utopias -- The tiger's tail -- Palimpsest.
520			_aPublisher description: For nearly two decades Western governments and a growing activist community have been frustrated in their attempts to bring about a freer and more democratic Burma-through sanctions and tourist boycotts-only to see an apparent slide toward even harsher dictatorship. But what do we really know about Burma and its history? And what can Burma's past tell us about the present and even its future? In The River of Lost Footsteps, Thant Myint-U tells the story of modern Burma, in part through a telling of his own family's history, in an interwoven narrative that is by turns lyrical, dramatic, and appalling. His maternal grandfather, U Thant, rose from being the schoolmaster of a small town in the Irrawaddy Delta to become the UN secretary-general in the 1960s. And on his father's side, the author is descended from a long line of courtiers who served at Burma's Court of Ava for nearly two centuries. Through their stories and others, he portrays Burma's rise and decline in the modern world, from the time of Portuguese pirates and renegade Mughal princes through the decades of British colonialism, the devastation of World War II, and a sixty-year civil war that continues today and is the longest-running war anywhere in the world. The River of Lost Footsteps is a work both personal and global, a distinctive contribution that makes Burma accessible and enthralling.
651		0	_aBurma _xHistory _y1824-1948.
651		0	_aBurma _xHistory _y1948-
856	4	1	_zTable of contents only _uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0610/2006009199.html
856	4	2	_zContributor biographical information _uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0634/2006009199-b.html
856	4	2	_zPublisher description _uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0634/2006009199-d.html
856	4	1	_zSample text _uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0705/2006009199-s.html
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