Colonial Economy in Crisis

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agrarian crisis
Author_Ian Brown
burma
Burma Delta
Burma Rebellion
Burma's Rice
Burma’s Rice
Burmese Agriculturist
Capitation Tax
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Central Siam
Chettiar Moneylender
Cochin China
Colonial Administration
colonial history
credit foreclosure
cultivators
delta
Delta Agriculturist
Delta Rice
deltas
depression
Depression Crisis
economic resilience
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European Colonial Order
Hsaya San Rebellion
Ian Brown
interwar Burma economic impact
land
Land Revenue
Land Revenue Administration
Land Revenue Rates
lower
Lower Burma
NAI
Paddy Trade
peasant strategies
price
revenue
rice
Rice Cultivator
Rice Districts
Rice Price
rural livelihoods
Total Long Term Debts

Product details

  • ISBN 9780415646796
  • Weight: 226g
  • Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
  • Publication Date: 17 Jan 2014
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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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.

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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