Format:
1 Online-Ressource (338 p)
ISBN:
9789812300805
,
9789812305077
,
9812300791
,
9812300805
Content:
Weathering the storm : the economies of Southeast Asia in the 1930s depression -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- List of Contributors -- 1. The Economies of Southeast Asia in the 1930s Depression: An Introduction by Peter Boomgaard and Ian Brown -- 2. Surviving the Slump: Developments in Real Income During the Depression of the 1930s in Indonesia, Particularly Java by Peter Boomgaard -- 3. The Philippines in the Great Depression: A Geography of Pain by Daniel F. Doeppers -- 4. Uneven Impact and Regional Responses: The Philippines in the 1930s Depression by W. G. Wolters -- 5. Material Conditions in Rural Lower Burma During the Economic Crisis of the Early 1930s: What the Cotton Textile Import Figures Reveal by Ian Brown -- 6. Structural Origins of the Economic Depression in Indonesia During the 1930s by J. Thomas Lindblad -- 7. Entrepreneurial Strategies in Indigenous Export Agriculture in the Outer Islands of Colonial Indonesia, 1925-38 by Jeroen Touwen -- 8. The Economy of Besuki in the 1930s Depression by S. Nawiyanto -- 9. The Rice Economy of Thailand in the 1930s Depression by Sompop Manarungsan -- 10. Rice and the Colonial Lobby: The Economic Crisis in French Indo-China in the 1920s and 1930s by Irene Nørlund -- 11. Hadhrami Arab Entrepreneurs in Indonesia and Malaysia: Facing the Challenge of the 1930s Recession by William Gervase Clarence-Smith -- 12. The State and the 1930s Depression in French Indo-China by Pierre Brocheux -- 13. Imperial Unity Versus Local Autonomy: British Malaya and the Depression of the 1930s by Paul H. Kratoska -- 14. Crisis and Response: A Study of Foreign Trade and Exchange Rate Policies in Three Southeast Asian Colonies in the 1930s by Anne Booth -- Index.
Content:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Language:
English
URL:
http://erf.sbb.spk-berlin.de/han/iglibrary/portal.igpublish.com/iglibrary/search/ISEASB0000255.html
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