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Imperial military transportation in British Asia : Burma 1941-1942 / Michael W. Charney.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.Description: xiv, 234 p. : ill., mapsISBN:
  • 1350178101 (pbk.)
  • 9781350178106 (pbk.)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • D810.T8 C43 2020
Contents:
Introduction -- 1. Metropolitan transportation technique from Britain to India and Iraq -- 2. Local, colonial railway experience -- 3. The failure of civilian management of a colonial railway in wartime -- 4. Militarization and the Rangoon to Prome branch -- 5. Kings of the road: decentralization and local initiative on the railway -- 6. The technical limits of the railway: the Mandalay to Lashio branch -- 7. Dark territory: the Myitkyina branch, late April to early May 1942 -- 8. After Burma: the militarization of railways in India.
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Reprint. Originally published: 2019.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-225) and index.

Introduction -- 1. Metropolitan transportation technique from Britain to India and Iraq -- 2. Local, colonial railway experience -- 3. The failure of civilian management of a colonial railway in wartime -- 4. Militarization and the Rangoon to Prome branch -- 5. Kings of the road: decentralization and local initiative on the railway -- 6. The technical limits of the railway: the Mandalay to Lashio branch -- 7. Dark territory: the Myitkyina branch, late April to early May 1942 -- 8. After Burma: the militarization of railways in India.

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