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020 _a9780521861748 (hbk.)
020 _a0521861748 (hbk.)
020 _a9780521679749 (pbk.)
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040 _aBD-DhIUB
_cBD-DhIUB
082 0 4 _a954.92
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100 1 _aSchendel, Willem van.
245 1 2 _aA history of Bangladesh /
_cby Willem van Schendel.
260 _aCambridge ;
_aNew York :
_bCambridge University Press,
_c2009.
300 _axxvi, 347 p. :
_bill., maps. ;
_c23 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 311-333) and index.
505 0 _aA land of water and silt -- Jungle, fields, cities and states -- A region of multiple frontiers -- The delta as a crossroads -- From the Mughal empire to the British empire -- The British impact -- A closing agrarian frontier -- Colonial conflicts -- Towards partition -- Partition -- The Pakistan experiment -- Pakistan falls apart -- East Pakistani livelihoods -- The roots of aid dependence -- A new elite and cultural renewal -- Armed conflict -- A state is born -- Imagining a new society -- Creating a political system -- Transnational linkages -- Bursting at the seams -- A national culture? -- Conclusion.
651 0 _aBangladesh
_xHistory.
650 1 7 _aMaatschappij
_2gtt
651 7 _aBangla Desh.
_2gtt
999 _c17878
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