ReadingsBurma under colonial ruleAdas, Michael, The Burma Delta: Economic Development and Social Change on an Asian Rice Frontier, 1852–1941 (Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1974).
Brown, Ian, A Colonial Economy in Crisis: Burma’s Rice Cultivators and the World Depression of the 1930s (London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2005).
Siok-Hwa, Cheng, The Rice Industry of Burma, 1852–1940 (Kuala Lumpur: University of Malaya Press, 1968).
Ghosh, Parimal, Brave Men of the Hills: Resistance and Rebellion in Burma, 1825–1932 (Honolulu, HI: University of Hawaii Press, 2000).
Richell, Judith L., Disease and Demography in Colonial Burma (Copenhagen: NIAS Press, 2006).
Scott, James C., The Moral Economy of the Peasant: Rebellion and Subsistence in Southeast Asia (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1976).
The colonial centreBhattacharya, [Chakraborti], Swapna, India–Myanmar Relations, 1886–1948 (Kolkata: K P Bagchi & Co., 2007).
Christian, John LeRoy, Modern Burma (New York: Institute of Pacific Relations, 1942).
Furnivall, J. S., Colonial Policy and Practice: A Comparative Study of Burma and Netherlands India (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1948).
Larkin, Emma, “The Self-Conscious Censor: Censorship Under the British, 1900–1939,” Journal of Burma Studies 8 (2003): 64–101.
Orwell, George, Burmese Days (San Diego, CA: Harcourt Brace, n.d.).
Pearn, B. R., History of Rangoon (Rangoon: American Baptist Mission Press, 1939).
Pham, Julie, “Ghost Hunting in Colonial Burma: Nostalgia, Paternalism and the Thoughts of J. S. Furnivall,” South East Asia Research 12.2 (July 2004): 237–268.
Self-government without independence, 1937–1947Maw, Ba, Breakthrough in Burma: Memoirs of a Revolution (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1968).
Bayly, Christopher and Harper, Tim, Forgotten Armies: The Fall of British Asia 1941–1945 (London: Allen Lane, 2004).
Kratoska, Paul H. (ed.), The Thailand–Burma Railway, 1942–1946, 6 vols. (New York: Routledge, 2006).
McEnery, John H., Epilogue in Burma 1945–1948 (Bangkok: White Lotus, 2000).
Nemoto, Kei (ed.), Reconsidering the Japanese Military Occupation in Burma (1942–45) (Tokyo: Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, 2007).
Singh, Balwant, Independence & Democracy in Burma, 1945–1952: The Turbulent Years (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Centers for South and Southeast Asian Studies, 1993).
Tamayama, Kazuo, Railwaymen in the War: Tales by Japanese Railway Soldiers in Burma and Thailand 1941–47 (Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005).
Tarling, Nicholas, A Sudden Rampage: The Japanese Occupation of Southeast Asia, 1941–1945 (London: Hurst & Co., 2001).
The democratic experiment, 1948–1958 & dress rehearsals, 1958–1962Butwell, Richard, U Nu of Burma (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1968).
Callahan, Mary, Making Enemies: War and State Building in Burma (Singapore: Singapore University Press, 2004).
Mendelson, E. Michael, Sangha and State in Burma: A Study of Monastic Sectarianism and Leadership (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1975).
Nu, U, U Nu Saturday’s Son, translated by Yone, U Law (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1975).
Win, U Sein, The Split Story: An Account of Recent Political Upheaval in Burma (Rangoon: The Guardian Press, 1959).
Tinker, Hugh, The Union of Burma (London: Oxford University Press, 1957).
Walinsky, Louis, Economic Development in Burma 1951–1960 (New York: Twentieth Century Fund, 1962).
The revolutionary councilCady, John F., The United States and Burma (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1976).
Maung, Maung, Burma and General Ne Win (London: Asia Publishing House, 1969).
Seekins, Donald M., The Disorder of Order: The Army-State in Burma Since 1962 (Bangkok: White Lotus, 2002).
Smith, Donald Eugene, Religion and Politics in Burma (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1965).
Steinberg, David I., Burma’s Road to Development: Growth and Ideology Under Military Rule (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1981).
Thaung, U, A Journalist, a General and an Army in Burma (Bangkok: White Lotus, 1995).
The BSPP yearsHlaing, Kyaw Yin, “Reconsidering the Failure of the Burma Socialist Program Party Government to Eradicate Internal Economic Impediments,” South East Asia Research 11.1 (March 2003): 5–58.
Lehman, F. K. (ed.), Military Rule in Burma Since 1962 (Singapore: Maruzen Asia, 1981).
Smith, Charles B., The Burmese Communist Party in the 1980s (Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Regional Strategic Studies Programme, 1984).
Steinberg, David I., Burma: A Socialist Nation of Southeast Asia (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1982).
Toward democracy, 1988–1990Kyi, Aung San Suu, Freedom from Fear and Other Writings (London: Penguin Books, 1991).
Lintner, Bertil, Outrage: Burma’s Struggle for Democracy (Bangkok: White Lotus, 1990).
Lintner, Bertil, The Rise and Fall of the Communist Party of Burma (CPB) (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 1990).
Maung, Maung, The 1988 Uprising in Burma (New Haven, CT: Yale University Southeast Asia Studies, 1999).
Perpetual delay, 1990 to the presentCarey, Peter (ed.), Burma: The Challenge of Change in a Divided Society, foreword by Kyi, Aung San Suu (Houndmills: Macmillan, 1997).
Fink, Christina, Living Silence: Burma under Military Rule (Bangkok: White Lotus, 2001).
Rotberg, Robert I. (ed.), Burma: Prospects for a Democratic Future (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 1998).
Seekins, Donald M., Burma and Japan Since 1940: From ‘Co-Prosperity’ to ‘Quiet Dialogue’ (Copenhagen: NIAS, 2007).
Selth, Andrew, Burma’s Armed Forces: Power Without Glory (Norwalk, CT: EastBridge, 2002).
Skidmore, Monique (ed.), Burma: At the Turn of the 21st Century (Honolulu, HI: University of Hawaii Press, 2005).
South, Ashley, Mon Nationalism and Civil War in Burma: The Golden Sheldrake (London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003).
Steinberg, David I., Burma: The State of Myanmar (Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2001).
Taylor, Robert H. (ed.), Burma: Political Economy Under Military Rule (London: Hurst & Co., 2001).
Tucker, Shelby, Burma: The Curse of Independence (London: Pluto Press, 2001).
