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...
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| Online Access: | Electronic book from EBSCO |
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: | Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, ©2011. |
| Series: | New perspectives in Southeast Asian studies.
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