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Book Reviews 236 which provides persuasive evidence of the relative economic well-being of the farm cultivator-owners in Lower Burma during the period. Those familiar with the pitfalls of attempting to erect statistical models utilizing the generally unreliable data availabe for Southeast Asian countries may view Professor Adas' efforts with some skepticism. However, he has drawn upon a solid mass of too rarely used materials, the settlement reports, as well as manuscript sources in the India Office and utilized his data with great care. It is the use of such data to reexamine a number of theses about the economies of colonial regimes that is the most impressive feature of this valuable work of scholarship. Professor Adas discusses the development of the now familiar plural society in Lower Burma and the shift from a relationship of symbiosis to one of com- petition within that society. This book provides an excellent summary and relatively brief analysis of the social problems which emerged following econom- ic expansion in Lower Burma and the onset of the Great Depression. However the discussion of these problems seems somewhat compressed compared to the earlier analysis of economic expansion in the Delta. One would hope that Professor Adas http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Asian and African Studies (in 2002 continued as African and Asian Studies) Brill

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Publisher
Brill
Copyright
© 1976 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
0021-9096
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1568-5217
DOI
10.1163/156852176X00414
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236 which provides persuasive evidence of the relative economic well-being of the farm cultivator-owners in Lower Burma during the period. Those familiar with the pitfalls of attempting to erect statistical models utilizing the generally unreliable data availabe for Southeast Asian countries may view Professor Adas' efforts with some skepticism. However, he has drawn upon a solid mass of too rarely used materials, the settlement reports, as well as manuscript sources in the India Office and utilized his data with great care. It is the use of such data to reexamine a number of theses about the economies of colonial regimes that is the most impressive feature of this valuable work of scholarship. Professor Adas discusses the development of the now familiar plural society in Lower Burma and the shift from a relationship of symbiosis to one of com- petition within that society. This book provides an excellent summary and relatively brief analysis of the social problems which emerged following econom- ic expansion in Lower Burma and the onset of the Great Depression. However the discussion of these problems seems somewhat compressed compared to the earlier analysis of economic expansion in the Delta. One would hope that Professor Adas

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Journal of Asian and African Studies (in 2002 continued as African and Asian Studies) – Brill

Published: Jan 1, 1976

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