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A Colonial Economy in Crisis: Burma's Rice Cultivators and the World Depression of the 1930s (Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia) - Softcover

Book 21 of 177: Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia

Brown, Ian

 
9780415646796: A Colonial Economy in Crisis: Burma's Rice Cultivators and the World Depression of the 1930s (Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0415646790 ISBN 13: 9780415646796
Publisher: Routledge, 2013

Synopsis

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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About the Author

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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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2013
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0415646790
ISBN 13 
9780415646796
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
144