Burma/Myanmar : what everyone needs to know /
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 anci...
| Основен автор: | Steinberg, David I., 1928- |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Oxford ; New York, N.Y. :
Oxford University Press,
℗♭2010.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=294859 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Burma/Myanmar. |
| Резюме: |
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 a. |
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| Физически характеристики: |
1 online resource (xxxi, 216 pages, [4] pages of plates) : illustrations, maps |
| Библиография: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 109-194) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780199739516 019973951X |