Imperial Military Transportation in British Asia: Burma 1941-1942

by Michael W. Charney

Book Overview

Imperial Military Transportation in British Asia sheds light on attempts by royal engineers to introduce innovations devised in the UK to wartime India, Iraq, and Burma, as well as the initial resistance of local groups of colonial railwaymen to such metropolitan innovations.

Michael W. Charney looks at the role of the railways in the First Burma Campaign to show how some kinds of military technology - as an example of imperial knowledge...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350178101
• ISBN13: 9781350178106
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"