A concise introduction to the long-obscured Southeast Asian country struggling to emerge from a half-century of military rule
David I Steinberg Livres
David Steinberg est un historien et éducateur américain dont le travail se concentre principalement sur l'histoire coréenne et birmane. En tant que professeur émérite et directeur des études asiatiques à la Georgetown University, il contribue à une compréhension approfondie de ces régions. Ses recherches explorent le développement historique et les aspects culturels de la Corée et de la Birmanie. Les écrits de Steinberg éclairent les événements clés et les processus sociaux qui ont façonné ces nations.
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 hasan 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 hascaptured 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/ 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 andculture. Authoritative and balanced, it will be standard work on Burma for the general reading public.'What Everyone Needs to Know' is a registered trademark of Oxford University Press.
