Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Tables vii
4. List of Figures xi
5. Acknowledgements xiii
6. List of Contributors xiv
7. 1. The Economies of Southeast Asia in the 1930s Depression: An Introduction 1
8. PART I Material Conditions
9. 2. Surviving the Slump: Developments in Real Income During the Depression of the 1930s in Indonesia, Particularly Java 23
10. 3. The Philippines in the Great Depression: A Geography of Pain 53
11. 4. Uneven Impact and Regional Responses: The Philippines in the 1930s Depression 83
12. 5. Material Conditions in Rural Lower Burma During the Economic Crisis of the Early 1930s: What the Cotton Textile Import Figures Reveal 109
13. PART II Agricultural Strategies
14. 6. Structural Origins of the Economic Depression in Indonesia During the 1930s 123
15. 7. Entrepreneurial Strategies in Indigenous Export Agriculture in the Outer Islands of Colonial Indonesia, 1925-38 143
16. 8. The Economy of Besuki in the 1930s Depression 171
17. 9. The Rice Economy of Thailand in the 1930s Depression 189
18. 10. Rice and the Colonial Lobby: The Economic Crisis in French Indo-China in the 1920s and 1930s 198
19. PART III Trading Communities
20. 11. Hadhrami Arab Entrepreneurs in Indonesia and Malaysia: Facing the Challenge of the 1930s Recession 229
21. PART IV The State's Response
22. 12. The State and the 1930s Depression in French Indo-China 251
23. 13. Imperial Unity Versus Local Autonomy: British Malaya and the Depression of the 1930s 271
24. 14. Crisis and Response: A Study of Foreign Trade and Exchange Rate Policies in Three Southeast Asian Colonies in the 1930s 295
25. Index 321