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The Rise and Fall of Revenue Farming

Business Elites and the Emergence of the Modern State in Southeast Asia

Michael Sullivan author John Butcher author Howard Dick author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan

Published:1st Jan '93

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Until 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.

ISBN: 9781349228799

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 504g

309 pages

1st ed. 1993