The Burma Delta: Economic Development and Social Change on an Asian Rice Frontier, 1852-1941

by Michael B. Adas

Book Overview

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299283542
• ISBN13: 9780299283544
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"