The Burma Delta : Economic Development and Social Change on an Asian Rice Frontier, 1852–1941
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| Title: | The Burma Delta : Economic Development and Social Change on an Asian Rice Frontier, 1852–1941 |
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| Description: | 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. |
| Authors: | Michael Adas |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Rice trade--Burma, Lower |
| Categories: | HISTORY / General, HISTORY / Asia / Southeast Asia |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | 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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| ISBN: | 9780299283544 9780299283537 |
