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CONTENTS

ARTICLES

Elizabeth Moore &              Change in the Landscape of First Millenium AD                   2

U Win Maung                       Myanmar download (over 22.07mb)

(Tampawaddy)

 

Jon Fernquest                    Crucible of War: Burma and the Ming in the Tai                   27

                                           Frontier Zone (1382-1454) download (2mb)

 

REVIEWS AND NOTES--under update

Gerry Abbott    Rod(g)ers: A Brief Addendum                                                                  82

 

Yang Li, The House of Yang: Guardians of an Unknown Frontier (William Clarence       84

                    Smith)

 

Monique Skidmore, Karaoke Fascism: Burma and the Politics of Fear (Alicia Turner)      85

 

Emma Larkin, Secret Histories: Finding Orwell in a Burmese Teashop (Atsuko Naono)    87

 

Russ Christensen & Sann Kyaw, The Pa-O: Rebels and Refugees (Gerry Abbott)             90

 

PRIMARY SOURCES

 

(download Hamilton Account) (483k)

 

Alexander Hamilton    Account of Pegu and the Voyage to Cambodia and Siam             98

               in 1718

 

(for the following primary sources, download here) (358k)

 

M.O., Charles

Duroiselle, &

Maung Mya            Miscellaneous Notes on the Word 'Talaing'                                       91

 

Mr. St. John            On Some North Arracan Celts (1871)                                                 94

 

King Mindon            Royal Edict of King Mindon, 1867                                                   94

 

Letter from Colonel A. P. Phayre addressed to Captain Crisp, Rangoon, dated 22           95

            June 1852, Akyab

 

Mr. Comstock               Two Missionary Letters from Arakan (1839)                                    96