Ghosts of the New City: Spirits, Urbanity, and the Ruins of Progress in Chiang Mai Duch Khatharya Um places these accounts

Khatharya Um places these accounts in conversation with studies of comparative revolutions

Understanding Reform in Myanmar is fact-filled

It traces the origin of the regime’s ideology and investigates its attempts to fill the empty state coffers through missile technology sales and other unorthodox schemes

Buddhist Dictionary will be as helpful to the serious lay student as to the professional scholar

Anderson is Professor of Research in the Department of Anthropology at Brown University

Ghosts of the New City: Spirits, Urbanity, and the Ruins of Progress in Chiang Mai Duch Khatharya Um places these accountsChiang Mai (literally, new city) suffered badly in the 1997 Asian financial crisis as the Northern Thai real estate bubble collapsed along with the Thai baht, crushing dreams of a renaissance of Northern prosperity. Years later, the ruins of the excesses of the 1990s still stain the skyline. In Ghosts of the New City, Andrew Alan Johnson shows how the trauma of the crash, brought back vividly by the political crisis of 2006, haunts efforts to remake