Weathering the Storm : : The Economies of Southeast Asia in the 1930s Depression / / ed. by Peter Boomgaard, Ian Brown.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
• MitwirkendeR: Boomgaard, Peter,; Booth, Anne,; Brocheux, Pierre,; Brown, Ian,; Clarence-Smith, William Gervase,; Doeppers, Daniel F.,; Kratoska, Paul H.,; Lindblad, J. Thomas,; Manarungsan, Sompop,; Nawiyanto, S.,; Nørlund, Irene,; Touwen, Jeroen,; Wolters, W. G.,
• HerausgeberIn: Boomgaard, Peter,; Brown, Ian,
• Place / Publishing House: Singapore : : ISEAS Publishing, , [2001]; ©2001
• Year of Publication: 2001
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (342 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Tables --; List of Figures --; Acknowledgements --; List of Contributors --; 1. The Economies of Southeast Asia in the 1930s Depression: An Introduction --; PART I Material Conditions --; 2. Surviving the Slump: Developments in Real Income During the Depression of the 1930s in Indonesia, Particularly Java --; 3. The Philippines in the Great Depression: A Geography of Pain --; 4. Uneven Impact and Regional Responses: The Philippines in the 1930s Depression --; 5. Material Conditions in Rural Lower Burma During the Economic Crisis of the Early 1930s: What the Cotton Textile Import Figures Reveal --; PART II Agricultural Strategies --; 6. Structural Origins of the Economic Depression in Indonesia During the 1930s --; 7. Entrepreneurial Strategies in Indigenous Export Agriculture in the Outer Islands of Colonial Indonesia, 1925-38 --; 8. The Economy of Besuki in the 1930s Depression --; 9. The Rice Economy of Thailand in the 1930s Depression --; 10. Rice and the Colonial Lobby: The Economic Crisis in French Indo-China in the 1920s and 1930s --; PART III Trading Communities --; 11. Hadhrami Arab Entrepreneurs in Indonesia and Malaysia: Facing the Challenge of the 1930s Recession --; PART IV The State's Response --; 12. The State and the 1930s Depression in French Indo-China --; 13. Imperial Unity Versus Local Autonomy: British Malaya and the Depression of the 1930s --; 14. Crisis and Response: A Study of Foreign Trade and Exchange Rate Policies in Three Southeast Asian Colonies in the 1930s --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9789812305077; 9783110649772; 9783111024707; 9783110663006; 9783110606683
• DOI: 10.1355/9789812305077
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Peter Boomgaard, Ian Brown.

The principal cause of the 1930s depression in Southeast Asia lay outside the region — through a sharp contraction in demand for the region’s major commodity exports. But it had important internal causes too: an oversupply of primary commodities and an increasing scarcity of new agricultural land leading to higher rents and lower wages, rising indebtedness and increasing landlessness. This work thoroughly analyses the pre-war depression. It also looks at the changes in the basic structures of the economies of Southeast Asia that were of long-term importance, such as the role of the state in the economy. The authors also draw similarities and contrasts between the 1930s depression and the 1990s Asian crisis.