Michael W Charney
Biographic Data
| ID | 539698 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael W Charney |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael W |
| FAMILY NAME | Charney |
| SIGNATURE | CHARNEY M W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3910-155X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
In Memoriam: Elizabeth Howard Moore (1949–2024)
The Cambridge History of Nationhood and Nationalism
This major new reference work with contributions from an international team of scholars provides a comprehensive account of ideas and practices of nationhood and nationalism from antiquity to the present. It considers both continuities and discontinuities, engaging critically and analytically with the scholarly literature in the field. Volume I starts with a series of case studies of classical civilizations. It then explores a wide range of pivot…
Food Insecurity in Small Island Developing States
Food Security in Small Island States by John Connell and Kristen Lowitt (eds.), Singapore: Springer Natur Singapore. 2020. 318pp. ISBN 978-981-13-8255-0 (hc); 978-981-13-8258-1 (pb); 978-981-13-8256-7 (ebook). €124.79 (hc), €88.39 (pb), €71.68 (ebook). Sustainable development and governance in the Global South were long issues associated with Africa. In the last decade, particularly after the existential threat to the Maldives was brought to inte…
Buddhism, the Royal Imaginary and Limits in Warfare: The Moderating Influence of Precolonial Myanmar Royal Campaigns on Everyday Warriors
Rules on the treatment of civilians and other non-combatants in conflict are often attributed to Western origins, particularly the increasingly widening circles of empathy that grew out of the European Enlightenment and found international implementation in the twentieth century. Nevertheless, such limits were pursued or encouraged by many non-Western societies as well, particularly amongst indigenous Americans. The present article examines the c…
Negotiation with a Reclusive Regime
The United States’ strategic pivot to the Asia Pacific has been interpreted as representing a kind of return for the Americans to Southeast Asia. While the U.S. relationship with many countries in the region has been historically strong (in Cambodia, Vietnam, the Philippines, Thailand, and Indonesia), Myanmar (Burma) has always seemed outside of the American orbit. In actuality, Myanmar has had a long historical relationship with the United State…
The Rohingyas of Myanmar: An under‐reported genocide
Michael D. Leigh, The Evacuation of Civilians from Burma: Analysing the 1942 Colonial Disaster
The encyclopedia of empire
Jonathan Saha. Law, Disorder and the Colonial State: Corruption in Burma c. 1900
Jonathan Saha provides here a study of official corruption in colonial Burma. In Saha's book, we find corruption almost as a way of life, or, as he calls it, “everyday misrule,” subordinate officials using the levers provided by the existence, not the absence, of law and of the colonial legal apparatus (p. 7). Although treated by other historians as rational, Saha contends that the colonial state was instead “duplicitous, theatrical, despotic, hi…
Literary Culture on the Burma–Manipur Frontier in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
Intellectual exchange between South Asian and Southeast Asian societies before and outside of colonialism is still poorly understood, both because of the lingering cultural essentialism promoted by colonial scholarship and the national and regional politics that have dominated historical perspectives since. Certainly, the role of local literati in the Chindwin river area on the Burma–Manipur frontier as mediators in the movement of ideas and lite…
A History of Modern Burma
Burma has lived under military rule for nearly half a century. The results of its 1990 elections were never recognized by the ruling junta and Aung San Suu Kyi, leader of Burma's pro-democracy movement, was denied her victory. She has been under house-arrest ever since. Now an economic satellite and political dependent of the People's Republic of China, Burma is at a crossroads. Will it become another North Korea, will it succumb to China's polit…
Southeast Asian Warfare, 1300-1900
This study of warfare in Southeast Asia between the fourteenth and nineteenth centuries examines the chief aspects of warfare in the region. It begins with an examination of the cultural features that made warfare in the region unique, followed by a discussion of the main weapons used, and the two major sites of fighting, sieges and naval contests. Three chapters examine the role played by animals such as elephants and horses. The final two chapt…
Warfare in Early Modern South East Asia: Introduction
Chinese Migrants Abroad - Cultural, Educational, and Social Dimensions of the Chinese Diaspora: Cultural, Educational, and Social Dimensions of the Chinese Diaspora
Fast-paced economic growth in Southeast Asia from the late 1960s until the mid-1990s brought increased attention to the overseas Chinese as an economically successful diaspora and their role in this economic growth. Events that followed, such as the transfer of Hong Kong and Macau to the People's Republic of China, the election of a non-KMT government in Taiwan, the Asian economic crisis and the plight of overseas Chinese in Indonesia as a result…
Asian Migrants and Education: The Tensions of Education in Immigrant Societies and among Migrant Groups
Chinese Migrants Abroad: Cultural, Educational, and Social Dimensions of the Chinese Diaspora
Fast-paced economic growth in Southeast Asia from the late 1960s until the mid-1990s brought increased attention to the overseas Chinese as an economically successful diaspora and their role in this economic growth. Events that followed, such as the transfer of Hong Kong and Macau to the People's Republic of China, the election of a non-KMT government in Taiwan, the Asian economic crisis and the plight of overseas Chinese in Indonesia as a result…
Burma's Lost Kingdoms: Splendours of Arakan (review)
Reviewed by: Burma's Lost Kingdoms: Splendours of Arakan Michael W. Charney Burma's Lost Kingdoms: Splendours of Arakan. Pamela Gutman and photography by Zaw Min Yu. Bangkok: Orchid Press, 2001. xii + 176 pp, photographs, illustrations, map, bibliography, index. $40.00. ISBN 974-8304-98-1. Western Burma (or Arakan) has long been Burma's neglected corner for historical and art historical research. In the early 1890s, Emil Forchhammer, a colonial-e…
A Reassessment of Hyperbolic Military Statistics in Some Early Modern Burmese Texts
Scholarly literature has not taken Burmese accounts of warfare seriously. Colonial historians viewed statistics in these sources as fanciful, exaggerated, and unreliable. Later scholars, both indigenous and western, have followed suit. They judge the chronicle accounts of Burmese warfare solely on the merits of the "objective" data. Much of this valuable material thus remains untouched or unconsidered in the secondary literature. This article sug…
Beyond State-centered Histories in Western Burma: Missionizing Monks and Intra-regional Migrants in the Arakan Littoral, c. 1784-1860
Centralizing Historical Tradition in Precolonial Burma: The Abhiraja/Dhajaraja Myth in Early Kòn-Baung Historical Texts
The Abhiraja/Dhajaraja story, the most important origin myth legitimizing Burmese kingship, is widely viewed as a central Burmese (Burman) tradition. Based on evidence from available pre-eighteenth century historical texts, many previously unexamined by scholars, this article finds that the Abhiraja/Dhajaraja origin myth developed in western Burma over three centuries before its appearance in central Burma in a 1781 court treatise. This analysis …
Paths to Conflagration: Fifty Years of Diplomacy and Warfare in Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam, 1778-1828
Crisis and Reformation in a Maritime Kingdom of Southeast Asia: Forces of Instability and Political Disintegration in Western Burma (Arakan), 1603-1701
This study of the initial collapse, revival, and finally a resumption of decline in the seventeenth century of the maritime kingdom of Arakan (in western Burma) attempts to establish a special place for Arakan in the general historiography of the seventeenth-century crisis in Southeast Asia. The unusual experience of Arakan in the seventeenth century was in large part due to both the blockades by autonomous Portuguese freebooters in the first two…
Rise of a Mainland Trading State: Rahkaing Under the Early Mrauk-U Kings, c. 1430-1603
This study of the rise of the maritime kingdom of Rahkaing (Arakan) in the 15th and 16th centuries attempts to demonstrate how the kings of Danya-wati gradually drew other power centers in the Rahkaing littoral (including Mekha-wati, Dwara-wati, and Chittagong) into its political orbit. Vital to this political centralization were the collateral processes of increasing maritime trade, demographic growth spurred by resettled war captives, the suppr…
The Religious World of Kīrti Śrī: Buddhism, Art, and Politics in Late Medieval Sri Lanka
Money, Markets and Trade in Early Southeast Asia: The Development of Indigenous Monetary Systems to A. D. 1400
Crisis and Reformation in a Maritime Kingdom of Southeast Asia: Forces of Instability and Political Disintegration in Western Burma (Arakan), 1603-1701
This study of the initial collapse, revival, and finally a resumption of decline in the seventeenth century of the maritime kingdom of Arakan (in western Burma) attempts to establish a special place for Arakan in the general historiography of the seventeenth-century crisis in Southeast Asia. The unusual experience of Arakan in the seventeenth century was in large part due to both the blockades by autonomous Portuguese freebooters in the first two…
Rise of a Mainland Trading State: Rahkaing Under the Early Mrauk-U Kings, c. 1430-1603
This study of the rise of the maritime kingdom of Rahkaing (Arakan) in the 15th and 16th centuries attempts to demonstrate how the kings of Danya-wati gradually drew other power centers in the Rahkaing littoral (including Mekha-wati, Dwara-wati, and Chittagong) into its political orbit. Vital to this political centralization were the collateral processes of increasing maritime trade, demographic growth spurred by resettled war captives, the suppr…
Literary Culture on the Burma–Manipur Frontier in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
Intellectual exchange between South Asian and Southeast Asian societies before and outside of colonialism is still poorly understood, both because of the lingering cultural essentialism promoted by colonial scholarship and the national and regional politics that have dominated historical perspectives since. Certainly, the role of local literati in the Chindwin river area on the Burma–Manipur frontier as mediators in the movement of ideas and lite…
Intestinal lactase deficiency in adult nonhuman primates: Implications for selection pressures in man
Money, Markets and Trade in Early Southeast Asia: The Development of Indigenous Monetary Systems to A. D. 1400
Crisis and Reformation in a Maritime Kingdom of Southeast Asia: Forces of Instability and Political Disintegration in Western Burma (Arakan), 1603-1701
This study of the initial collapse, revival, and finally a resumption of decline in the seventeenth century of the maritime kingdom of Arakan (in western Burma) attempts to establish a special place for Arakan in the general historiography of the seventeenth-century crisis in Southeast Asia. The unusual experience of Arakan in the seventeenth century was in large part due to both the blockades by autonomous Portuguese freebooters in the first two…
Rise of a Mainland Trading State: Rahkaing Under the Early Mrauk-U Kings, c. 1430-1603
This study of the rise of the maritime kingdom of Rahkaing (Arakan) in the 15th and 16th centuries attempts to demonstrate how the kings of Danya-wati gradually drew other power centers in the Rahkaing littoral (including Mekha-wati, Dwara-wati, and Chittagong) into its political orbit. Vital to this political centralization were the collateral processes of increasing maritime trade, demographic growth spurred by resettled war captives, the suppr…
The Religious World of Kīrti Śrī: Buddhism, Art, and Politics in Late Medieval Sri Lanka
Paths to Conflagration: Fifty Years of Diplomacy and Warfare in Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam, 1778-1828
Beyond State-centered Histories in Western Burma: Missionizing Monks and Intra-regional Migrants in the Arakan Littoral, c. 1784-1860
Centralizing Historical Tradition in Precolonial Burma: The Abhiraja/Dhajaraja Myth in Early Kòn-Baung Historical Texts
The Abhiraja/Dhajaraja story, the most important origin myth legitimizing Burmese kingship, is widely viewed as a central Burmese (Burman) tradition. Based on evidence from available pre-eighteenth century historical texts, many previously unexamined by scholars, this article finds that the Abhiraja/Dhajaraja origin myth developed in western Burma over three centuries before its appearance in central Burma in a 1781 court treatise. This analysis …
Chinese Migrants Abroad - Cultural, Educational, and Social Dimensions of the Chinese Diaspora: Cultural, Educational, and Social Dimensions of the Chinese Diaspora
Fast-paced economic growth in Southeast Asia from the late 1960s until the mid-1990s brought increased attention to the overseas Chinese as an economically successful diaspora and their role in this economic growth. Events that followed, such as the transfer of Hong Kong and Macau to the People's Republic of China, the election of a non-KMT government in Taiwan, the Asian economic crisis and the plight of overseas Chinese in Indonesia as a result…
Asian Migrants and Education: The Tensions of Education in Immigrant Societies and among Migrant Groups
Chinese Migrants Abroad: Cultural, Educational, and Social Dimensions of the Chinese Diaspora
Fast-paced economic growth in Southeast Asia from the late 1960s until the mid-1990s brought increased attention to the overseas Chinese as an economically successful diaspora and their role in this economic growth. Events that followed, such as the transfer of Hong Kong and Macau to the People's Republic of China, the election of a non-KMT government in Taiwan, the Asian economic crisis and the plight of overseas Chinese in Indonesia as a result…
Burma's Lost Kingdoms: Splendours of Arakan (review)
Reviewed by: Burma's Lost Kingdoms: Splendours of Arakan Michael W. Charney Burma's Lost Kingdoms: Splendours of Arakan. Pamela Gutman and photography by Zaw Min Yu. Bangkok: Orchid Press, 2001. xii + 176 pp, photographs, illustrations, map, bibliography, index. $40.00. ISBN 974-8304-98-1. Western Burma (or Arakan) has long been Burma's neglected corner for historical and art historical research. In the early 1890s, Emil Forchhammer, a colonial-e…
A Reassessment of Hyperbolic Military Statistics in Some Early Modern Burmese Texts
Scholarly literature has not taken Burmese accounts of warfare seriously. Colonial historians viewed statistics in these sources as fanciful, exaggerated, and unreliable. Later scholars, both indigenous and western, have followed suit. They judge the chronicle accounts of Burmese warfare solely on the merits of the "objective" data. Much of this valuable material thus remains untouched or unconsidered in the secondary literature. This article sug…
Southeast Asian Warfare, 1300-1900
This study of warfare in Southeast Asia between the fourteenth and nineteenth centuries examines the chief aspects of warfare in the region. It begins with an examination of the cultural features that made warfare in the region unique, followed by a discussion of the main weapons used, and the two major sites of fighting, sieges and naval contests. Three chapters examine the role played by animals such as elephants and horses. The final two chapt…
Warfare in Early Modern South East Asia: Introduction
A History of Modern Burma
Burma has lived under military rule for nearly half a century. The results of its 1990 elections were never recognized by the ruling junta and Aung San Suu Kyi, leader of Burma's pro-democracy movement, was denied her victory. She has been under house-arrest ever since. Now an economic satellite and political dependent of the People's Republic of China, Burma is at a crossroads. Will it become another North Korea, will it succumb to China's polit…
Literary Culture on the Burma–Manipur Frontier in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
Intellectual exchange between South Asian and Southeast Asian societies before and outside of colonialism is still poorly understood, both because of the lingering cultural essentialism promoted by colonial scholarship and the national and regional politics that have dominated historical perspectives since. Certainly, the role of local literati in the Chindwin river area on the Burma–Manipur frontier as mediators in the movement of ideas and lite…
Jonathan Saha. Law, Disorder and the Colonial State: Corruption in Burma c. 1900
Jonathan Saha provides here a study of official corruption in colonial Burma. In Saha's book, we find corruption almost as a way of life, or, as he calls it, “everyday misrule,” subordinate officials using the levers provided by the existence, not the absence, of law and of the colonial legal apparatus (p. 7). Although treated by other historians as rational, Saha contends that the colonial state was instead “duplicitous, theatrical, despotic, hi…
The encyclopedia of empire
Negotiation with a Reclusive Regime
The United States’ strategic pivot to the Asia Pacific has been interpreted as representing a kind of return for the Americans to Southeast Asia. While the U.S. relationship with many countries in the region has been historically strong (in Cambodia, Vietnam, the Philippines, Thailand, and Indonesia), Myanmar (Burma) has always seemed outside of the American orbit. In actuality, Myanmar has had a long historical relationship with the United State…
The Rohingyas of Myanmar: An under‐reported genocide
Michael D. Leigh, The Evacuation of Civilians from Burma: Analysing the 1942 Colonial Disaster
Buddhism, the Royal Imaginary and Limits in Warfare: The Moderating Influence of Precolonial Myanmar Royal Campaigns on Everyday Warriors
Rules on the treatment of civilians and other non-combatants in conflict are often attributed to Western origins, particularly the increasingly widening circles of empathy that grew out of the European Enlightenment and found international implementation in the twentieth century. Nevertheless, such limits were pursued or encouraged by many non-Western societies as well, particularly amongst indigenous Americans. The present article examines the c…
Food Insecurity in Small Island Developing States
Food Security in Small Island States by John Connell and Kristen Lowitt (eds.), Singapore: Springer Natur Singapore. 2020. 318pp. ISBN 978-981-13-8255-0 (hc); 978-981-13-8258-1 (pb); 978-981-13-8256-7 (ebook). €124.79 (hc), €88.39 (pb), €71.68 (ebook). Sustainable development and governance in the Global South were long issues associated with Africa. In the last decade, particularly after the existential threat to the Maldives was brought to inte…
The Cambridge History of Nationhood and Nationalism
This major new reference work with contributions from an international team of scholars provides a comprehensive account of ideas and practices of nationhood and nationalism from antiquity to the present. It considers both continuities and discontinuities, engaging critically and analytically with the scholarly literature in the field. Volume I starts with a series of case studies of classical civilizations. It then explores a wide range of pivot…
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