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Auteur(s) : Charney, Michael Walter (1967-....)
Titre(s) : Imperial military transportation in British Asia [Texte imprimé] : Burma 1941-1942 / Michael W. Charney
Publication : London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2019
Description matérielle : xiv- 234 pages : maps ; 24 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-225) and index
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 - faced resistance due to 1930s-era colonial insularity. The delay this
caused significantly compromised the early defense of the colony when the Japanese
invaded in 1942. Charney examines the efforts made by one engineer in particular to
revive the railways and shows how this effort was responsible for the development
of a truly imperial technology that was suitable for extra-European contexts and finally
won acceptance in India. Incorporating newly accessible primary source material from
the files of the military Director of Transportation during the Campaign, this book
highlights a hitherto unfilled gap in the archival record and explores an ignored
but crucial aspect of the 1942 Japanese invasion of Burma
Sujet(s) : Guerre mondiale (1939-1945) -- Transport -- Birmanie
Guerre mondiale (1939-1945) -- Inde
Guerre mondiale (1939-1945) -- Irak
Transports militaires -- Colonies britanniques -- Asie -- 1900-1945
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 1350089451. - ISBN 9781350089457 (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb457206202
Notice n° :
FRBNF45720620
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
