Dr. Clement Williams was a British army surgeon, political agent, and businessman who gained unparalleled access to the court of King Mindon, the great ruler of Mandalay, between 1861 and his premature death in 1873.<\/p>\n
William’s official diaries, his legal disputes, his commercial contracts, his travel book, and (most of all) his extraordinarily rare photographs offer a unique portrait of an ancient civilisation on the cusp of industrial, technological, and political change. Drawing on primary sources and academic works, The Informal Imperialist<\/em><\/strong> has already been recognised as a significant contribution to Burmese studies within and beyond Myanmar. And, by weaving Williams’s story into a clear and compelling narrative, it reveals a vanished world to both scholars and general readers alike. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A fascinating and historically significant glimpse of the life of the Burmese in late 19th century. Diaries, journals, court documents are all harvested to give a thrilling account of a surgeon’s life in Burma.
Author’s note 6
\nIntroduction 8
\nPrologue 16
\nChapter 1 28
\nChapter 2 38
\nChapter 3 48
\nChapter 4 66
\nChapter 5 80
\nChapter 6 88
\nChapter 7 100
\nChapter 8 106
\nChapter 9 114
\nChapter 10 118
\nChapter 11 122
\nChapter 12 126
\nChapter 13 132
\nChapter 14 138
\nChapter 15 146
\nChapter 16 154
\nChapter 17 166
\nChapter 18 176
\nChapter 19 182
\nEpilogue 194
\nCoda 208
\nSource notes 210
\nReferences 240
\nAcknowledgements 248<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":56755,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":""},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[21063],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-56754","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-history","7":"author-by-author-ron-graham","8":"publisher-river-books","10":"first","11":"instock","12":"shipping-taxable","13":"purchasable","14":"product-type-simple"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n