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THE BURMA DELTA
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND SOCIAL CHANGE ON AN ASIAN RICE FRONTIER, 1852-1941 |
| By: |
Michael Adas |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| List price:
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£29.95 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0299283542 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780299283544 |
| Publisher: |
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
15 April, 2011 |
| Edition: |
1, with a New Preface ed. |
| Series: |
New Perspectives in Southeast Asian Studies |
| Pages: |
276 |
| Description: |
An award-winning study of the economic expansion of Lower Burma into the world s largest exporter of rice is available again, now in paperback with a new preface." |
| Synopsis: |
In the decades following its annexation to the Indian Empire in 1852, Lower Burma (the Irrawaddy-Sittang delta region) was transformed from an underdeveloped and sparsely populated backwater of the Konbaung Empire into the world s largest exporter of rice. This seminal and far-reaching work focuses on two major aspects of that transformation: the growth of the agrarian sector of the rice industry of Lower Burma and the history of the plural society that evolved largely in response to rapid economic expansion." |
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| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
University of Wisconsin Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |