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Book SynopsisRebel Politics analyzes the changing dynamics of the civil war in Myanmar, one of the most entrenched armed conflicts in the world. Since 2011, a national peace process has gone hand-in-hand with escalating ethnic conflict. The Karen National Union (KNU), previously known for its uncompromising stance against the central government of Myanmar...
Trade Review"Rebel Politics is underpinned by years of extraordinary fieldwork, including unprecedented access to the leaders of some of Myanmar's ethnic-minority rebel groups. It is a pathbreaking book, essential reading not only for Myanmar-watchers but also anyone interested in insurgencies and state formation." -- Lee Jones, Queen Mary University of London, author of
Societies Under SiegeTable of ContentsAcknowledgments
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Introduction: Playing the Long Game
1. Teaching Revenge: Social Aspirations and the Fragmented Subject of Early Modern Conduct Books
2. Feeling Revenge: Emotional Transmission and Contagious Vengeance in Donne's Deaths Duell
3. Fantasizing about Revenge: Vagrancy and the Formation of the Social Body in Shakespeare's 2 Henry VI and Nashe's The Unfortunate Traveller
4. Commemorating Revenge: Mourning, Memory, and Retributive Alternatives in the English Interregnum
Afterword: What Remains of Civil Vengeance?
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