The book challenges the orthodox argument that rural populations which abandoned self-sufficiency to become single commodity producers, and were supposedly very vulnerable to the commodity price collapse of the 1930s Depression, did not suffer as much as has been supposed. It shows how the effects of the depression were complicated, varying between regions, between different kinds of economic actors, and over time, and shows how the 'victims' of the depression were not passive, working imaginatively to mitigate their circumstances.
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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.
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In December 1852, near the conclusion of a second Anglo-Burmese war, Britain annexed the Burmese province of Pegu. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages:
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In December 1852, near the conclusion of a second Anglo-Burmese war, Britain annexed the Burmese province of Pegu. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages:
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- The Moral Economy of the Peasant: Rebellion and Subsistence in Southeast Asia by Professor James C. Scott in Front Matter, page 105, and Back Matter
- Colonial Policy and Practice: A Comparative Study of Burma and Netherlands India by J. S. Furnivall on page 20, page 49, and page 50
- Food Supplies and the Japanese Occupation in South-East Asia (Studies in the Economies of East & South-East Asia) by Paul H. Kratoska in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Netherlands India: A Study of Plural Economy by John S. Furnivall on page 42, and Back Matter
- A History of Modern Burma by John F. Cady on page 15, and Back Matter
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- Corruption and Good Governance in Asia (Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia) by Nicholas Tarling in Front Matter
- Rural Economic Development in Japan: From the Nineteenth Century to the Pacific War (Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia) by Penelope Francks in Front Matter
- Intra-Asian Trade and the World Market (Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia) by AJH Latham in Front Matter
- Changing Visions of East Asia, 1943-93: Transformations and Continuities (Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia) by R.B. Smith in Front Matter
- Women, Work and the Japanese Economic Miracle: The case of the cotton textile industry, 1945-1975 (Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia) by Helen Macnaughtan in Front Matter
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