Contents

pp v-vi

List of Tables

pp vii-x

List of Figures

pp xi-xii

Acknowledgements

pp xiii-xiii

List of Contributors

pp xiv-xv

1 - The Economies of Southeast Asia in the 1930s Depression: An Introduction

pp 1-20

PART I - MATERIAL CONDITIONS

pp 21-22

2 - Surviving the Slump: Developments in Real Income During the Depression of the 1930s in Indonesia, Particularly Java

pp 23-52

3 - The Philippines in the Great Depression: A Geography of Pain

pp 53-82

4 - Uneven Impact and Regional Responses: The Philippines in the 1930s Depression

pp 83-108

5 - Material Conditions in Rural Lower Burma During the Economic Crisis of the Early 1930s: What the Cotton Textile Import Figures Reveal

pp 109-120

PART II - AGRICULTURAL STRATEGIES

pp 121-122

6 - Structural Origins of the Economic Depression in Indonesia During the 1930s

pp 123-142

7 - Entrepreneurial Strategies in Indigenous Export Agriculture in the Outer Islands of Colonial Indonesia, 1925-38

pp 143-170

8 - The Economy of Besuki in the 1930s Depression

pp 171-188

9 - The Rice Economy of Thailand in the 1930s Depression

pp 189-197

10 - Rice and the Colonial Lobby: The Economic Crisis in French Indo-China in the 1920s and 1930s

pp 198-226

PART III - TRADING COMMUNITIES

pp 227-228

11 - Hadhrami Arab Entrepreneurs in Indonesia and Malaysia: Facing the Challenge of the 1930s Recession

pp 229-248

PART IV - THE STATE'S RESPONSE

pp 249-250

12 - The State and the 1930s Depression in French Indo-China

pp 251-270

13 - Imperial Unity Versus Local Autonomy: British Malaya and the Depression of the 1930s

pp 271-294

14 - Crisis and Response: A Study of Foreign Trade and Exchange Rate Policies in Three Southeast Asian Colonies in the 1930s

pp 295-320

Index

pp 321-332