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What Next for Burma? (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Charney, M. W. (2009, October). What Next for Burma?. Presented at Presentation at The Orwell Prize 2010 Launch: Part 12 - Dr Michael Charney, London

On Missing Links: Discontinuities in Arakanese History--the Buthidaung-Maungdaw Steam Tramway, 1911-1926 (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Charney, M. W. (2009, August). On Missing Links: Discontinuities in Arakanese History--the Buthidaung-Maungdaw Steam Tramway, 1911-1926. Paper presented at Arakanese History and Religion Seminar, London: SOAS

This paper examines the construction and liquidation of the Buthidaung-Maungdaw Steam Tramway, 1911-1926, in Arakan (Western Burma). It was prepared for the Arakanese History and Religion Seminar in London, but not presented as the event was cancelle... Read More about On Missing Links: Discontinuities in Arakanese History--the Buthidaung-Maungdaw Steam Tramway, 1911-1926.

Permitted and Forbidden Sources of Knowledge in New Court Literature during the Sudhamma Reformation in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth-Century Konbaung Court (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Charney, M. W. (2009, March). Permitted and Forbidden Sources of Knowledge in New Court Literature during the Sudhamma Reformation in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth-Century Konbaung Court. Paper presented at Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, Chicago, Illinois

This paper looks at a new generation of court literature in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century Konbaung court in Burma, that positioned itself in a “traditional” Burma constructed by the monks of the Sudhamma Reformation from the 1780s.... Read More about Permitted and Forbidden Sources of Knowledge in New Court Literature during the Sudhamma Reformation in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth-Century Konbaung Court.

SEATO and Burma's Civil War: The Failure of Cold War Appeal in the mid-1950s (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Charney, M. W. (2009, March). SEATO and Burma's Civil War: The Failure of Cold War Appeal in the mid-1950s. Paper presented at Asia in Global and Comparative Perspectives: Commercial, Cultural and Institutional Connectivity, Manchester

Amongst the many reasons cited for the failure of the South East Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO), SEATO's meager representation in the Southeast Asian region itself finds itself pretty high on most lists. The question of why it failed to develop a s... Read More about SEATO and Burma's Civil War: The Failure of Cold War Appeal in the mid-1950s.

History of Burma Since 1945 (2009)
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Charney, M. W. History of Burma Since 1945

This overview of postwar Burmese history was written and submitted for a handbook on contemporary Burma. The volume never materialized