Burma/Myanmar: What Everyone Needs to Know (Steinberg - paperback)

Author: David I. Steinberg

ISBN: 9780195390681

Binding: paperback

Section: History

In the past two decades, Burma/Myanmar has become a front-page topic in newspapers across the world. 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.