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Anti-Fascist People's Freedom League
Anti-Fascist People’s Freedom League
Aung San
Author_Matthew Bowser
Ba Maw
Bamar-Buddhist
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Cold War
colonialism
containment
critical race theory
decolonisation
discrimination
divide-and-rule politics
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ethnic cleansing
ethnic identity
ethnonationalism
high politics
Indophobic
Islamophobia
junta
kala
Myanmar
Myochit
partition
passive revolution
pogrom
political racialization
race
racial regimes
revolution
Rohingya genocide
Sinyetha
Tatmadaw
U Pu
U Saw
Product details
- ISBN 9781526187949
- Weight: 538g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 02 Sep 2025
- Publisher: Manchester University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This book examines British imperialism in late colonial Burma to study how imperialists attempted to protect their strategic and economic interests after decolonisation: they did so by supporting ethnonationalism. This process resembles the Cold War tactic of “containment,” and the book makes a crucial contribution to the study of modern imperialism by demonstrating the continuity between “containment’s” late- and “neo”-colonial manifestations. For Burma/Myanmar, it also explores the origin of the present-day military junta’s racial regime: it emphasizes the protection of the ethnoreligious majority from ethnic minority insurgency. The Rohingya people are currently suffering a genocide because of this racial regime. As the country endures civil war against the junta, this book highlights how ethnonationalists in the late colonial period first promoted this racial regime to seize power and prevent revolution, a process supported by British imperialists for their own ends.
Matthew Bowser is Assistant Professor of Asian History at Alabama A&M University
