The Rise and Fall of Revenue Farming : Business Elites and the Emergence of the Modern State in Southeast Asia

Howard Dick

ISBN 10: 0333562879 / ISBN 13: 9780333562871

Published by Palgrave Macmillan UK Aug 1993, 1993

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Neuware - Until the early 1900s governments of Southeast Asia farmed out the right to run opium, gambling and other monopolies. Yet by about 1920 all of the major farms had been abolished and the collection of revenue brought under direct bureaucratic control. This book explains the rise and sudden fall of revenue farming, traces the changing fortunes of the Chinese businessmen who held the major farms, and uses the study of revenue farming to examine the emergence of the modern state in Southeast Asia.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Rise and Fall of Revenue Farming : Business Elites and the Emergence of the Modern State in Southeast Asia
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK Aug 1993
• Publication Date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0333562879
• ISBN 13: 9780333562871
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 234W x 156H x 19D millimeters 234 millimeters width by 156 millimeters height by 19 millimeters depth
• Weight: 635 grams

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Synopsis

Until the early 1900s governments of Southeast Asia farmed out the right to run opium, gambling and other monopolies. Yet by about 1920 all of the major farms had been abolished and the collection of revenue brought under direct bureaucratic control. This book explains the rise and sudden fall of revenue farming, traces the changing fortunes of the Chinese businessmen who held the major farms, and uses the study of revenue farming to examine the emergence of the modern state in Southeast Asia.

Synopsis

Until the 1900s colonial and indigenous governments of Southeast Asia farmed out the right to run opium, gambling and other monopolies. Yet by about 1920 all of the major farms had been abolished and the collection of revenue brought under direct bureaucratic control. This book tries to explain the rise and sudden fall of revenue farming to trace the changing fortunes of the Chinese businessmen who held the major farms and to use the study of revenue farming to examine the emergence of the modern state in Southeast Asia and the great economic changes of this period.