{"product_id":"burma-in-revolt-opium-and-insurgency-since-1948-9789747100785","title":"Burma in Revolt: Opium and Insurgency since 1948","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBurma in Revolt: Opium and Insurgency since 1948\u003c\/strong\u003e by Lintner, Bertil. Paperback edition. ISBN: 9789747100785.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1948 Burma was a promising young democracy with a bustling free-market economy and a standard of living that surpassed nearly all of its Asian neighbors. Fifty years later, Burma is one of the poorest nations in the world, with a military dictatorship in Rangoon and 50,000 armed rebels from a myriad of ethnic insurgency groups. In this well-documented and detailed account, journalist Bertil Lintner explains the connection between Burmas booming drug production and its insurgency and counter-insurgency, providing an answer to the question of why Burma has been unable to shake off 35 years of military rule and build a modern, democratic society. This revised and updated edition includes a list of a cronyms, a chronology of events, a whos who of important figures in Burmas insurgency, an annotated list of rebel armies, and biographical sketches of the Thirty Comrades.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"University of Washington Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44989872537653,"sku":"ByrdShop_9747100789","price":317.81,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9789747100785_d9157aae-e7b3-4a32-ae21-d342d3b29a85.jpg?v=1778693734","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/burma-in-revolt-opium-and-insurgency-since-1948-9789747100785","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}