The Burma Road to Poverty

by Mya Maung

Although political upheavals and mass killings in the Socialist Republic of Burma (Myanmar) have received a great deal of international attention, scholars and journalists until now have failed to identify the unique underlying factors that produced this situation and helped to maintain military dictatorship under Ne Win's successors. Mya Maung looks into the deeper sources of Burmese behavior, focusing on the ancient tradition of sacred despotic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275936139
• ISBN13: 9780275936136
• Release Date: August 1991
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 362 Pages
• Weight: 1.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"