1st Edition
History of Burma From the Earliest Time to the End of the First War with British India
By Arthur P. Phayre
Copyright 2001
332 Pages
by
Routledge
332 Pages
by
Routledge
338 Pages
by
Routledge
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This classic history, first published in 1883, is the first English-language work to provide a comprehensive history of Burma, now Myanmar, based on Burmese sources. It incorporates the early history not only of Burma proper, but also those of the surrounding kingdoms of Pegu, Taungu, Tenasserim, and Arakan, comparing when possible differing accounts of events as described in those chronicles. Includes original extensive appendixes and large foldout map.
I: Burma Proper—Legendary Kings; II: Prome and Pugan; III: Pegu; IV: Pugan Monarchy—(Continued); V: Arakan; VI: Pugan Monarchy—(to its end); VII: Shan Kings in Divided Burma; VIII: Burma with Capital at Ava—Shan Kings in Pegu; IX: Arakan; X: Shan Kings of Burma and the Kings of Pegu, Until the Rise of the Taungu Monarchy; XI: Taungu; XII: Pegu Under a Burmese King, and Burma Under Shan Kings; XIII: Pegu and Burma United Under a Burmese King; XIV: Pegu and Burma Again Separated; XV: Pegu and Burma Again United; XVI: Pegu and Burma—Struggle for Supremacy—Brief Success of Pegu; XVII: Alaunghprâ—Triumph of Burma; XVIII: Arakan; XIX: Dynasty of Alaunghprâ; XX: Dynasty of Alaunghprâ—Conquest of Arakan; XXI: Dynasty of Alaunghprâ—Conquests to the West and War with British India; XXII: Early European Intercourse with Burma
Biography
Arthur P. Phayre
