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Containing decolonisation
British imperialism and the politics of race in late colonial Burma
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Matthew Bowser
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English
Published/Copyright:
2025
About this book
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.
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Matthew Bowser is Assistant Professor of Asian History at Alabama A&M University
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September 2, 2025
eBook ISBN:
9781526187956
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eBook ISBN:
9781526187956
Keywords for this book
Anti-Fascist People’s Freedom League; Aung San; Ba Maw; Bamar-Buddhist; Cold War; colonialism; containment; critical race theory; decolonisation; discrimination; divide-and-rule politics; 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
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For an expert adult audience, including professional development and academic research
