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Burma/Myanmar. What Everyone Needs to Know

Autor David I. Steinberg

Editorial OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

Burma/Myanmar. What Everyone Needs to Know
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In the past two decades, Burma/Myanmar has become a front-page topic in newspapers across the world. This former British colony has one of the most secretive, corrupt, and repressive regimes on the planet, yet it houses a Nobel Peace Prize winner who...

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  • Editorial OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • ISBN13 9780195390681
  • ISBN10 0195390687
  • Tipo LIBRO
  • Páginas 216
  • Año de Edición 2010
  • Idioma Inglés
  • Encuadernación Rústica

Burma/Myanmar. What Everyone Needs to Know

Autor David I. Steinberg

Editorial OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

In the past two decades, Burma/Myanmar has become a front-page topic in newspapers across the world. This former British colony has one of the most secretive, corrupt, and repressive regimes on the planet, yet it houses a Nobel Peace Prize winner who...

11,95€
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Envío gratis a partir de 19€
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In the past two decades, Burma/Myanmar has become a front-page topic in newspapers across the world. This former British colony has one of the most secretive, corrupt, and repressive regimes on the planet, yet it houses a Nobel Peace Prize winner who is and in and out of house arrest. It has an ancient civilization that is mostly unknown to Westerners, yet it was an important-and legendary-theater in World War II. A picturesque land with mountain jungles and monsoon plains, it is one of the world's largest producers of heroin. It has a restive Buddhist monk population that has captured the attention of the west when it faced off against the regime. And it recently experienced one of the worst natural disasters in modern times, one effect of which was to lay bare the manifold injustices and cruelties of the regime. Burma/Myanmar: What Everyone Needs to Know offers a concise synthesis of this forbidding yet fascinating country. David Steinberg, one of the world's eminent authorities on the region, explains the current situation in detail yet contextualizes it in a wide-ranging survey of Burmese history and culture. Authoritative and balanced, it will be standard work on Burma for the general reading public.