A concise introduction to the long-obscured Southeast Asian country struggling to emerge from a half-century of military rule
David I Steinberg Bücher
David Steinberg ist ein amerikanischer Historiker und Pädagoge, dessen Werk sich vor allem auf die koreanische und burmesische Geschichte konzentriert. Als renommierter Professor und Direktor für Asienstudien an der Georgetown University trägt er zu einem tieferen Verständnis dieser Regionen bei. Seine Forschung befasst sich mit der historischen Entwicklung und den kulturellen Aspekten Koreas und Burmas. Steinbergs Schriften beleuchten Schlüsselereignisse und gesellschaftliche Prozesse, die diese Nationen geprägt haben.
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.
