Article ID: CBB439617494

Metamorphosis: The Rice Boom, Environmental Transformation, and the Problem of Truncation in Colonial Lower Burma, 1850–1940 (2019)

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During the period between roughly 1850 and 1940, Lower Burma came under British colonial rule and, as a result, experienced a profound transformation or “metamorphosis.” This metamorphosis had environmental, economic, and political dimensions, which Southeast Asian historians have well documented. This essay views the case in Lower Burma from the perspective of global history, at once synthesizing the specialist literature and adding to the mix other dimensions, particularly relating to human biology.

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Authors & Contributors
Naono, Atsuko
Joanna W. C. Lee
Otter, Christopher (Chris) James
Richard Dwight Porcher
Baum, Robert M.
Smith, Hayden R.
Concepts
Agriculture
Rice and rice industry
Great Britain, colonies
Colonialism
Environmental history
Rice growing
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
18th century
Qing dynasty (China, 1644-1912)
21st century
20th century, early
Places
Myanmar (Burma)
Asia
South Carolina (U.S.)
Malaya
Thailand
Indian Ocean
Institutions
World Health Organization (WHO)
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