Weathering the Storm: The Economies of Southeast Asia in the 1930s Depression

Contents\nList of Tables\nList of Figures\nAcknowledgements\nList of Contributors\n1. The Economies of Southeast Asia in the 1930s Depression: An Introduction\nPART I Material Conditions\n2. Surviving the Slump: Developments in Real Income During the Depression of the 1930s in Indonesia, Particularly Java\n3. The Philippines in the Great Depression: A Geography of Pain\n4. Uneven Impact and Regional Responses: The Philippines in the 1930s Depression\n5. Material Conditions in Rural Lower Burma During the Economic Crisis of the Early 1930s: What the Cotton Textile Import Figures Reveal\nPART II Agricultural Strategies\n6. Structural Origins of the Economic Depression in Indonesia During the 1930s\n7. Entrepreneurial Strategies in Indigenous Export Agriculture in the Outer Islands of Colonial Indonesia, 1925-38\n8. The Economy of Besuki in the 1930s Depression\n9. The Rice Economy of Thailand in the 1930s Depression\n10. Rice and the Colonial Lobby: The Economic Crisis in French Indo-China in the 1920s and 1930s\nPART III Trading Communities\n11. Hadhrami Arab Entrepreneurs in Indonesia and Malaysia: Facing the Challenge of the 1930s Recession\nPART IV The State\'s Response\n12. The State and the 1930s Depression in French Indo-China\n13. Imperial Unity Versus Local Autonomy: British Malaya and the Depression of the 1930s\n14. Crisis and Response: A Study of Foreign Trade and Exchange Rate Policies in Three Southeast Asian Colonies in the 1930s\nIndex