Thant Myint-U

The Hidden History of Burma: Race, Capitalism, and the Crisis of Democracy in the 21st Century (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A New York Times Critics' Top Book of 2019
A Foreign Affairs Best Book of 2020

An urgent book. Jennifer Szalai, New York Times

During 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 country's 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 Burma's story really tell us about the most critical issues of our time?

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. November 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781324003304
• Artikelnr.: 59593299

Autorenporträt

Thant Myint-U is an award-winning writer, historian, and conservationist. He lives in Rangoon, where he currently heads U Thant House and the Yangon Heritage Trust.