Burma and the Politics of Teak

Raymond Bryant

Chapter 7 in A History of Natural Resources in Asia, 2007, pp 143-161 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract 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).

Keywords: Resource Militarization; Political Ecology; Resource Curse; Forest Dweller; Forest Official (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230607538_8

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