The Burma Delta: Economic Development and Social Change on an Asian Rice Frontier, 1852-1941 (New Perspectives in Southeast Asian Studies) - Softcover

Adas, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0299283542 ISBN 13: 9780299283544

Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press, 2011

Synopsis

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. “Adas has made a major contribution to the study of economic history and development of Burma and demonstrated most impressively what can be achieved by imaginative and careful scholarship to our understanding of colonial regimes in Southeast Asia.” ―Albert D. Moscotti, Journal of Asian and African Studies.

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About the Author

Michael Adas is the Abraham E. Voorhees Professor of History at Rutgers University. He is author of Machines as the Measure of Men: Science, Technology, and Ideologies of Western Dominance and Dominance by Design: Technological Imperatives and Americas Civilizing Mission.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0299283542
• ISBN 13: 9780299283544
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 276