History Of Burma: Including Burma Proper Pegu Taungu Tennasserim and Arakan. from the Earliest Time to the End of the First War: 7 (Bibliotheca Orientalis)

Written by a renowned scholar of Burmese culture politics and language this is the first English-language work to provide a comprehensive history of Burma based both on Burmese written sources and on the narratives of European travellers and residents prior to the end of the nineteenth century. It incorporates the early history not only of Burma proper but also that of the surrounding kingdoms of Pegu Taungu Tenasserim and Arakan comparing when possible differing accounts of events as described. It remains an essential reference on the pre-20th century history of the region.