The Hidden History of Burma (eBook)

Race, Capitalism, and the Crisis of Democracy in the 21st Century

Thant Myint-U (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2019
320 Seiten
W. W. Norton & Company (Verlag)
978-1-324-00330-4 (ISBN)

Infos

A New York Times Critics' Top Book of 2019A Foreign Affairs Best Book of 2020An urgent book. Jennifer Szalai, New York TimesDuring a century of colonialism, Burma was plundered for its natural resources and remade as a racial hierarchy. Over decades of dictatorship, it suffered civil war, repression, and deep poverty. Today, Burma faces a mountain of challenges: crony capitalism, exploding inequality, rising ethnonationalism, extreme racial violence, climate change, multibillion dollar criminal networks, and the power of China next door. Thant Myint-U shows how the countrys past shapes its recent and almost unbelievable attempt to create a new democracy in the heart of Asia, and helps to answer the big questions: Can this multicultural country of 55 million succeed? And what does Burmas story really tell us about the most critical issues of our time?

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 12.11.2019
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Schlagworte: Aung San • Aung San Suu Kyi • China • house arrest • India • khin kyi • Massacres • Military Coup • Military junta • Myanmar • National League for Democracy • Political prisoner • Politics • Rakhine State • Refugee crisis • rohingya • Rohingya Crisis • Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh • san suu • Suu Kyi • United Nations
• ISBN-10: 1-324-00330-8 / 1324003308
• ISBN-13: 978-1-324-00330-4 / 9781324003304