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State and Society in Modern Rangoon

More a repetition of the standard received Western version of Myanmar’s modern history than a study of Yangon (Rangoon in the pre-1989 transliteration), State and Society in Modern Rangoon is an accessible introduction to the country’s history for the uninitiated. Those who expect an account of the history of the capital of British Burma and post-colonial Burma/Myanmar prior to 2005 will be disappointed. It does not evoke the “different cities with the same name” that “sometimes succeed each other on the same site”, as Italo Calvino wrote in Invisible Cities. Rather, it tells the tale in nationalism, post-colonial politics, military rule, economic collapse and eventual regeneration based largely on secondary sources.