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The Burma delta: economic development and social change on an Asian rice frontier, 1852-1941

Adas, Michael, 1943-

Year: 1974.

Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press.

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table of contents

Frontmatter

List of Maps

List of Tables

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 of 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

reviews

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Title:

The Burma delta : economic development and social change on an Asian rice frontier, 1852-1941 Michael Adas.

Author:

Adas, Michael, 1943-

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The Burma delta : economic development and social change on an Asian rice frontier, 1852-1941 Michael Adas.
Adas, Michael, 1943-
Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1974.

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Subject Headings:

• Rice trade -- Burma
• Burma, Lower -- Economic conditions
• Burma, Lower -- Social conditions

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