Stamps of Burma : A Historical Record through 1988

Min, Min Sun

The Telephone Organization of Thailand（2008/03発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 84 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789748102436
• DDC分類 769.569591

Full Description

The postage stamps of Burma, like stamps of other countries the world over, are a colorful visual record of a unique history. Stamps represent the British colonial government through the Japanese occupation, the British military administration, Burmese independence, the revolutionary council, and the Burmese Way to Socialism. But what of the most significant event in Burma's modern history - the pro-democracy uprising of 1988? No stamp depicts it.

This imaginative book features each stamp issued in Burma through 1988, ending with a series of stamps specially created by Min Sun Min, to be issued, he says, "one day, when Burma is free."

Contents

Foreword

Timeline

Introduction

1. A Survey of Postal History

2. A Brief History of Burma

3. Stamps of the British Occupation (1937-1942)

4. Stamps of the Japanese Occupation (1942-1945)

5. Stamps of the British Military Administration (1945-1948)

6. Stamps of Independent Burma (1948-1962)

7. Stamps of the Revolutionary Council and BSPP (1962-1988)

8. Stamps as a Historical Record (1988)

List of Stamps

Classification of Stamp Themes

Foreign Printers Used by the Burmese Government

Bibliography