Expanded and updated ed. of: The state in Burma. London : C. Hurst & Co, c1987.

1. The Pre-colonial State -- The evolution of the pre-colonial state -- The territorial organization for the pre-colonial state -- Authority relations in the pre-colonial state -- Financing the pre-colonial state -- The agencies of the pre-colonial state -- The legitimacy of the pre-colonial state -- Politics under the pre-colonial state -- 2. The Rationalisation of the State, 1825-1942 -- Transforming the structures of the state -- The territorial organization of the state -- The rationalization of authority relations -- Financing the rationalized state -- The Shan states under the British -- Rationalising and expanding the functions of the state -- State 'legitimacy' and constitutional policy -- New class and ethnic formations -- 3. Politics under the Rationalised State, 1886-1942 -- Early responses to the colonial state -- The emergence of the middle class political elite -- The emergence of Burmese political parties -- Peasants and politics under the colonial state -- Youth and students in late colonial politics -- 4. The Displacement of the State, 1942-1962 -- War, revolution and the state -- The reorganization of the state -- The contestants for state power -- Old and new functions of the state -- The rise of alternative authorities -- Economic and social change -- The search for legitimacy -- 5. Reasserting the State, 1962-1987 -- The consequences of the March 2nd coup -- Territorial reorganisation -- Changing relations with state authority -- The functions of the state -- Politics under the socialist state -- 6. The State Redux, 1988-2008 -- The bankruptcy of Socialist Burma -- The return of army rule -- The renewed contest for state power -- Other political parties -- The revival of student politics and other political movements -- The emergence of exile politics -- Ceasefire agreements and new ethnic political patterns -- Change and continuity in state-society relations -- The functions of the state -- Courts and the law -- Economic and financial -- External relations -- The issue of state and regime legitimacy -- Politics within the SLORC/SPDC -- Addendum: The Third Constitution of the State in Myanmar -- Background to the 2008 Constitutional Referendum -- The 2008 Constitution -- Attitudes towards the draft constitution and the referendum process -- A return to competitive politics within the state or against the state? -- Bibliography pre-1988 -- Bibliography post-1988.