A concise introduction to the long-obscured Southeast Asian country struggling to emerge from a half-century of military rule
David I Steinberg Books
David Steinberg is an American historian and educator whose work primarily focuses on Korean and Burmese history. As a distinguished professor and director of Asian Studies at Georgetown University, he contributes to a deeper understanding of these regions. His scholarship delves into the historical development and cultural aspects of Korea and Burma. Steinberg's writings illuminate key events and societal processes that have shaped these 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.
