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A History of Rangoon

B. R. Pearn, Corporation of Rangoon, American Baptist Mission Press, Rangoon, 1939

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Contents
Preface
01. Hagiography
02. Dagon
03. Founding of Rangoon
04. Alaungpaya's Rangoon, 1
05. Alaungpaya's Rangoon, 2
06. War of 1824
07. Tharawaddy's Rangoon
08. War of 1852
09. Planning of the Modern City

 

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