Burma Delta: Economic Development and Social Change on an Asian Rice Frontier, 1852-1941 (1, with a New Preface)

ISBN-13: 9780299283544 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 276 str.

Michael Adas

Opis

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."