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KlappentextMandalay, whose construction began in 1857 as the capital of Upper Burma north of the British colonial border, became home to King Mindon s splendid court two years later. With its lively urban economic-industrial trading and development activities, the city came to symbolise the revolt by the last Burmese Buddhist rulers against colonialism.The investigation of the little-researched city of Mandalay proved, like the onslaught of the apocalyptic horsemen bringing war and pestilence in their wake,to be ill-fated by the double star of the coronavirus pandemic and the military coup. The observations in this essay therefore focus predominantly on the city s early period, ultimately posing the question of whether royal Mandalay might serve as a guideline for understanding present-day politics in Myanmar.Mandalay: Bulwark against Colonialism follows on the heels of an account of Yangon (2017) and an approach to Naypyitaw (2018, 2019) - a trilogy spotlighting the three capitals on the territory of Myanmar as urban figures in which historical epochs of upheaval and the political-economic regimes ofthe nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries played out.
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ISBN/GTIN978-3-947729-60-9
ProduktartBuch
EinbandartGebunden
ErscheinungsortBerlin
ErscheinungslandDeutschland
Erscheinungsjahr2022
Erscheinungsdatum29.03.2022
Seiten180 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
Artikel-Nr.50494882
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