Ian Brown

A Colonial Economy in Crisis (eBook, ePUB)

Burma's Rice Cultivators and the World Depression of the 1930s

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The book challenges the orthodox argument that rural populations which had abandoned self-sufficiency to become single commodity producers.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. August 2005
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134403370
• Artikelnr.: 47885159

Autorenporträt

Ian Brown is Professor of the Economic History of South East Asia at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London. He is the author of Economic Change in South-East Asia, c.1830-1980, and he has also published extensively on the economy of Siam in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, and on the impact of the world depression of the 1930s on the economies of South East Asia. He is currently working on a history of the prison in colonial Burma.

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue: Finding the question 1. The Long View: Growth and weakness in
Burma's rice economy 2. The Course of the Depression Crisis 3. Credit
Contraction and Foreclosure 4. Survival Strategies and Material
Circumstances 5. The Economic Foundations of Rebellion Epilogue: Memory and
perspective Bibliography