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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Rangoon"”.
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The skin of a writer
… elements address these questions. “Winsome of Rangoon” is a novel set in Rangoon, 1930, that examines colonialism from a position between coloniser and colonised. Winsome Goode is young, attractive, half-Burmese and half-European. On the night train to Rangoon and just married to a man she …
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Slums, Squatters and Urban Redevelopment Schemes in Bombay, Hong Kong, and Singapore, 1894-1960
… the works of the Bombay Improvement Trust, Rangoon Development Trust, and Singapore Improvement Trust through the early decades of the twentieth century and analyses how an imperial urbanism based on a ‘Bombay model’ translated to Singapore and other port cities across the Indian Ocean …
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Difficult history : saving Yangon from colonial nostalgia
… growth today. I focus on Yangon, Myanmar (Rangoon, Burma), which has the world's largest collection of Victorian and Edwardian colonial architecture. Years of active neglect by the military government have preserved these aging structures, but this era is coming to an end amid with often …