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The Burma Delta : economic development and social change on an Asian rice frontier, 1852-1941 /
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 work focuses on two major aspects...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Madison, Wis. :
University of Wisconsin Press,
©2011.
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| Colección: | New perspectives in Southeast Asian studies.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The foundations of social and economic development. The Delta rice frontier under Konbaung and early British rule
- The early phase of growth, 1852-1907. Internal migration in the last half of the nineteenth century ; Agrarian development on the advancing rice frontier ; Indian immigration to lower Burma in the first phase of development ; The genesis of the plural society in lower Burma : the era of symbiosis
- The decades of transition, 1908-30. The closing rice frontier and new patterns of agrarian development ; Changing migration patterns and the rise of competition in the mature plural society
- The years of social and economic crises, 1931-41. The depression and Burma's time of troubles : communal violence and agrarian rebellion.