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Burma and the Politics of Teak

In: A History of Natural Resources in Asia

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  • Raymond Bryant

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Burmese history is closely associated with the teak tree. Identification of the country as “the land of teak” was reinforced in numerous fiction and nonfiction accounts. The elaboration of a large-scale exported-oriented timber industry in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries demonstrated the economic importance of this resource. Teak was popularized and romanticized even as its commercial value was realized (Brandis 1888; Kelly 1912; Orwell 1987).

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  • Raymond Bryant, 2007. "Burma and the Politics of Teak," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Greg Bankoff & Peter Boomgaard (ed.), A History of Natural Resources in Asia, chapter 7, pages 143-161, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-60753-8_8
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230607538_8
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