Weathering the Storm : : The Economies of Southeast Asia in the 1930s Depression /

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

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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 le...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (342 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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