Burma/Myanmar: What Everyone Needs to Know(r)

by David I. Steinberg

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195390687
• ISBN13: 9780195390681
• Release Date: November 2009
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.1" x 5.5"