The Rise and Fall of Revenue Farming
Author: John G. Butcher
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 309
ISBN-13: 9780312089931
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The Rise and Fall of Revenue Farming
Author: Howard Dick
Publisher: Springer
Published: 1993-09-15
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 134922877X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUntil the early 1900s governments of Southeast Asia farmed out the right to run opium, gambling and other monopolies. Yet by about 1920 all of the major farms had been abolished and the collection of revenue brought under direct bureaucratic control. This book explains the rise and sudden fall of revenue farming, traces the changing fortunes of the Chinese businessmen who held the major farms, and uses the study of revenue farming to examine the emergence of the modern state in Southeast Asia.
The Rise and Fall of Modern Empires, Volume I
Author: Owen White
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-03-02
Total Pages: 1080
ISBN-13: 1351882767
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection brings together twenty-one articles that explore the diverse impact of modern empires on societies around the world since 1800. Colonial expansion changed the lives of colonised peoples in multiple ways relating to work, the environment, law, health and religion. Yet empire-builders were never working with a blank slate: colonial rule involved not just coercion but also forms of cooperation with elements of local society, while the schemes of the colonisers often led to unexpected outcomes. Covering not only western European nations but also the Ottomans, Russians and Japanese, whose empires are less frequently addressed in collections, this volume provides insight into a crucial aspect of modern world history.
Hong Kong's History
Author: Tak-Wing Ngo
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2002-09-11
Total Pages: 218
ISBN-13: 1134630956
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRewriting Hong Kong's history from the bottom up, the chapters investigate vital, but hitherto obscured, aspects of the colony's rise. They cover the Chinese collaboration with the colonial regime, legal discrimination and intimidation, rural politics, social movements, government-business relations, industrial policy, flexible manufacturing and colonial historiography. Drawing together contributions from historians, sociologists and political scientists, the book highlights the role played by a variety of social actors in Hong Kong's history and differs both from recent celebrations of British colonialism and anti-colonial Chinese nationalism.
Opium Regimes
Author: Timothy Brook
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2000-09-18
Total Pages: 470
ISBN-13: 9780520222366
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOpium Regimes draws on a range of research to show that the opium trade was not purely a British operation, but involved Chinese merchants and state agents, and Japanese imperial agents as well.
Water Frontier
Author: Nola Cooke
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780742530836
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWater Frontier focuses principally on southwest Indochina (from modern southern Vietnam into eastern Cambodia and southwestern Thailand), which it calls the Lower Mekong region. The book's excellent contributors argue that, during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, this area formed a single trading zone woven together by the regular itineraries of thousands of large and small junk traders. This zone in turn formed a regional component of the wider trade networks that linked southern China to all of Southeast Asia. This is the 'water frontier' of the title, a sparsely settled coastal and riverine frontier region of mixed ethnicities and often uncertain settlements in which the waterborne trade and commerce of a long string of small ports was essential to local life. This innovative book uses the water frontier concept to reposition old nation-state oriented histories and decenter modern dominant cultures and ethnicities to reveal a different local past. It expands and deepens our understanding of the time and place as well as of the multiple roles played by Chinese sojourners, settlers, and junk traders in their interactions with a kaleidoscope of local peoples.
Land and Local Kingship in Eighteenth-Century Bengal
Author: John R. McLane
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2002-07-25
Total Pages: 376
ISBN-13: 9780521526548
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines the politics and culture of eastern India's landed chiefs.
Ungrounded Empires
Author: Aihwa Ong
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2003-12-16
Total Pages: 354
ISBN-13: 1135964203
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines Chinese transnationalism as a distinctive domain within the new 'flexible' capitalism emerging in the Asia-Pacific region. It is based on new ethnographic research and interweaves anthropology, culture and politics.
The Chinese in Southeast Asia and Beyond
Author: Ching-Hwang Yen
Publisher: World Scientific
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 464
ISBN-13: 9812790489
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Chinese in Southeast Asia, with their growing economic clout, have been attracting attention from politicians, scholars and observers in recent decades. The rise of China as a global economic power and its profound influence over Southeast Asia has cast a spotlight on the role of Southeast Asian Chinese in the region''s economic relations with China.The Southeast Asian Chinese as an economic force and their growing importance with China are, to a certain extent, determined by the nature and development of their communities. This book uses a multifaceted approach to unravel the forces that helped to transform the communities in the past. Containing 17 papers written within a span of six and a half years, from 2000 to 2006, the book focuses on the social, economic and political aspects of these communities, with special emphasis on the Chinese in Malaysia and Singapore.
Opium, Empire and the Global Political Economy
Author: Carl Trocki
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012-11-12
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 113511899X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDrug epidemics are clearly not just a peculiar feature of modern life; the opium trade in the nineteenth century tells us a great deal about Asian herion traffic today. In an age when we are increasingly aware of large scale drug use, this book takes a long look at the history of our relationship with mind-altering substances. Engagingly written, with lay readers as much as specialists in mind, this book will be fascinating reading for historians, social scientists, as well as those involved in Asian studies, or economic history.
