| A Colonial Economy in Crisis: Burma's Rice Cultivators and the World Depression of the 1930s Contributor(s): Brown, Ian (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415646790 ISBN-13: 9780415646796 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $52.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Business & Economics | Industries - General - History | Asia - Southeast Asia - Business & Economics | Economics - General |
| Dewey: 338.173 |
| Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia |
| Physical Information: 0.31" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.47 lbs) 144 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Asian - Cultural Region - Southeast Asian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |