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Making Sense Of Strange Places: Mining And Railway Construction In Burma And The Gold Coast In The Early Twentieth Century (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Charney, M. W. (2010, September). Making Sense Of Strange Places: Mining And Railway Construction In Burma And The Gold Coast In The Early Twentieth Century. Presented at University of Michigan Center for Southeast Asian Studies Public Lectures, Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, 1636 SSWB/International Institute

Deciding whether or not the colonial state was interested in supporting economic development depends upon the interpretation of a vast and often internally contradictory range of correspondence and government decisions in numerous offices, the field... Read More about Making Sense Of Strange Places: Mining And Railway Construction In Burma And The Gold Coast In The Early Twentieth Century.

The Colonial State, Railway Construction and Connecting the Hinterland in Asia and Africa: Encouraging and Discouraging the Extension of Lines to Kumasi (Ghana) and Lashio (Burma) (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Charney, M. W. (2010, June). The Colonial State, Railway Construction and Connecting the Hinterland in Asia and Africa: Encouraging and Discouraging the Extension of Lines to Kumasi (Ghana) and Lashio (Burma). Paper presented at The Role of Government in Colonial Economies and the Impact of the Transition to Independence, SOAS, London