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The Bengal Delta : ecology, state and social change, 1840-1943 /
The Bengal Delta is the first major environmental history of colonial Bengal, Bangladesh in particular. It suggests that this active deltaic plain was a prosperous and dynamic part of South Asia's economy until far later than most historians imagine. It was a frontier zone facing the Indian Oce...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Basingstoke :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2010.
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| Colección: | Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Ecology and Agrarian Relations in the Nineteenth Century
- Economy and Society: The Myth and Reality of 'Sonar Bangla'
- Political Ecology of the Peasant: The Faraizi Movement Between Revolution and Passive Resistance
- Return of the Bhadralok: Agrarian Environment and the Nation
- The Railways and the Water Regime
- Fighting With a Weed: Water Hyacinth, the State and the Public Square
- Between Food Availability Decline and Entitlement Exchange: An Ecological Prehistory of the Great Bengal Famine of 1943.