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The Burma Delta: Economic Development and Social Change on an Asian Rice Frontier, 1852-1941 (New Perspectives in Se Asian Studies)
The Burma Delta Economic Development and Social Change on an Asian Rice Frontier 1852-1941 - New Perspectives in Se Asian Studies
Author: Michael Adas
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: th...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780299283544
ISBN-10: 0299283542
Publication Date: 4/20/2011
Pages: 276
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Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Book Type: Paperback
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