About this title: After careful re-reading and analysis of original Old Burmese and other primary sources, the author discovered that four out of the five events considered to be the most important in the history of early Burma, and believed to have been historically accurate, are actually late-nineteenth- and twentieth-century inventions of colonial historians ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780896802018ISBN:0896802019
Description: As New with no dust jacket. 14 x 22 cm.; pg. xi, 220; List of maps, introduction, notes, bibliography, index. "After a careful re-reading of primary sources written in Old Burmese, [the author] set about tracing the history of five key events that took place during the Kingdom of Pagan in order to disentangle that history from myth. He found that four of the five events, which have been considered the most important in the history of early Burma, are actually inventions of late-nineteenth-and ... read more
Description: Athens, Ohio Univ. Center for International Studies, (1998). Wrappers, map, pp. xi, 220. Fine. ISBN 0 89680 201 9. After a careful re-reading of primary sources in Old Burmese, the author concludes that four of five key events that took place during the Kingdom of Pagan, considered the most important in the history of early Burma, are in fact inventions of late-nineteenth and twentieth century colonial historians. The fifth is a genuine myth, but it too has been embellished by modern historians. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: OHIO UNIV PR
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780896802018ISBN:0896802019
Description: New. After careful re-reading and analysis of original Old Burmese and other primary sources, the author discovered that four out of the five events considered to be the most important in the history of early Burma, and believed to have been historically... read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Date Published: 1998-05-30
ISBN-13:9780896802018ISBN:0896802019
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