Burma Delta - Economic Development Social Change on an Asian Rice Frontier, 1852

An award-winning study of the economic expansion of Lower Burma into the world's largest exporter of rice is available again, now in paperback with a new preface.

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 America's Civilizing Mission.

Summary

An award-winning study of the economic expansion of Lower Burma into the world's largest exporter of rice is available again, now in paperback with a new preface.

Product details

• Authors: Michael Adas
• Publisher: The University of Wisconsin Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2011
• EAN: 9780299283544
• ISBN: 978-0-299-28354-4
• No. of pages: 276
• Series: New Perspectives in Se Asian S; New Perspectives in Southeast Asian Studies; New Perspectives in Se Asian S
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics