Myanmar in the Fifteenth Century: A Tale of Two Kingdoms

by Michael A. Aung-Thwin

Book Overview

When the great kingdom of Pagan declined politically in the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries, its territory devolved into three centers of power and a period of transition occurred. Then two new kingdoms arose: the First Ava Dynasty in Upper Myanmar and the First Pegu Dynasty in Lower Myanmar. Both originated around the second half of the fourteenth century, reached their pinnacles in the fifteenth, and declined before the first half...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824867831
• ISBN13: 9780824867836
• Release Date: May 2017
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.1"