Myth and History in the Historiography of Early Burma : Paradigms, Primary So...
Myth and History in the Historiography of Early Burma : Paradigms, Primary Sources, and Prejudices, Paperback by Aung-Thwin, Michael A., ISBN 0896802019, ISBN-13 9780896802018, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Traces the history of five key events that took place during the Kingdom of Pagan of early Burma in order to disentangle myth from history, and reveals that four of these events are actually inventions of late 19th- and 20th-century colonial historians caught in their own intellectual and political world. A fifth event is an indigenous Burmese myth, embellished by modern historians. Demonstrates the subtle relationships that exist between the historian's own social, political, and academic perspectives and historiography. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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