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Contents (Issue 3.1)
Alyssa Phillips. “Romance and Tragedy in Burmese History: A Reading of G. E.
Havey’s The History of Burma”
Stephen L. Keck. “Text and Context: Another Look at Burmese Days”
Jon Fernquist. “The Flight of Lao War Captives From Burma Back to Laos in 1596:
A Comparison of Historical Sources”
Prince Naritsara Nuwattiwong (translated by Kennon Breazeale). “A Journey Through Burma [in 1888].”
Michael Symes. “Cammuaza, or the Ceremony Used at the Induction of a Birman into
the Order of the Priesthood, called Phonghi, or Rhahaan (1795)”
“Miscellaneous Letters on Burma, 1755-1760, I”
George Baker. “Observations at Persaim and in the Journey to Ava and Back in 1755”
“Treaty Between Alaung-hpaya and the British EastIndia Company in 1757”
Robert Lester. “Proceedings of An Embassy to the King of Ava, Pegu, &C. In 1757”
Walter Alves. “Diary of the Proceedings of an Embassy to Burma in 1760”
William Hunter. “A Concise Account of the Kingdom of Pegu”
“Gleanings on Burma, December 1826”
R. Boileau Pemberton. “Abstract of the Journal of a Route Travelled by Captain S. F.
Hannay, of the 40th Regiment, Native Infantry, in 1835-1836, from the
Capital of Ava to the Amber Mines of the Hukong Valley on the South-
east Frontier of Assam”
“Brief Notice on T. H. Lewin’s Visit to the Arakan Hills in 1865-1866”
Book Reviews (click for material below)
Mary Callahan. Making Enemies: War and State Building in Burma.
Review by Patricia M. Herbert
Review by Netina Tan
Julian Thompson. The Imperial War Museum Book of the War in Burma, 1942-1945
Review by Jacob John Rigg