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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York, N.Y. :
Oxford University Press,
©2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xxxi, 216 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 109-194) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780199739516 019973951X |