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This volume explores the interactive elements of coastal Burmaís civilization by bringing together a unique array of scholarshistorians and art-historians, anglophones and francophones, South Asianists and Southeast Asianists. The result is a creative and colorful pastiche that pays tribute to Burmaís distinctive political, cultural, and commercial place in the Indian Ocean world.
The contributors include Jos gommans, Barend Jan Terwiel, Michael Aung-Thwin, Tilman Frasch, Michel Jacq-Hergoualcíh, Om Prakash, Sanjay Subrahmanyam, Jacques Leider, Stephan van Galen, Pamela Gurman, Catherine Raymond, Swapna Bhattacharya (Chakraborti), Michael Charney, and Richare Eaton.