The Burma Delta [[electronic resource] ] : economic development and social change on an Asian rice frontier, 1852-1941 / / Michael Adas
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| Autore: |
Adas Michael <1943->
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| Titolo: |
The Burma Delta [[electronic resource] ] : economic development and social change on an Asian rice frontier, 1852-1941 / / Michael Adas
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| Pubblicazione: | Madison, Wis., : University of Wisconsin Press, 2011 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | xxiii, 256 p. : maps |
| Disciplina: | 338.9591 |
| Soggetto topico: | Rice trade - Burma, Lower |
| Soggetto geografico: | Burma, Lower Economic conditions |
| Burma, Lower Social conditions | |
| Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Intro -- Contents -- List of Maps -- List of Tables -- Preface to the 2011 Edition -- Acknowledgments -- Citation of Selected Government Reports -- Introduction -- I. The Foundations of Social and Economic Development -- 1. The Delta Rice Frontier under Konbaung and Early British Rule -- II. The Early Phase of Growth, 1852-1907 -- 2. Internal Migration in the Last Half of the Nineteenth Century -- 3. Agrarian Development on the Advancing Rice Frontier -- 4. Indian Immigration to Lower Burma in the First Phase of Development -- 5. The Genesis of the Plural Society in Lower Burma: The Era of Symbiosis -- III. The Decades of Transition, 1908-30 -- 6. The Closing Rice Frontier and New Patterns of Agrarian Development -- 7. Changing Migration Patterns and the Rise of Competition in the Mature Plural Society -- IV. The Years of Social and Economic Crises, 1931-41 -- 8. The Depression and Burma's Time of Troubles: Communal Violence and Agrarian Rebellion -- Conclusion -- Glossary -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | An award-winning study of the economic expansion of Lower Burma into the worldrsquo;s largest exporter of rice is available again, now in paperback with a new preface. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The Burma Delta |
| ISBN: | 1-283-11431-3 |
| 9786613114310 | |
| 0-299-28353-4 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910824330903321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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New perspectives in Southeast Asian studies.