A Colonial Economy in Crisis : Burma's Rice Cultivators and the World Depression of the 1930s - Ian Brown

A Colonial Economy in Crisis

Burma's Rice Cultivators and the World Depression of the 1930s

By: Ian Brown

Hardcover | 9 March 2005 | Edition Number 1

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This book challenges the orthodox argument that rural populations which had abandoned self-sufficiency in the nineteenth century to become single commodity producers, and which were supposedly very vulnerable to the commodity price collapse of the 1930s depression, did not in fact suffer as severely as has been supposed. It shows how the effects of the depression in the Burma rice delta were complicated, varying between regions, between different kinds of economic actors, and over time, and shows how the 'victims' of the depression were not passive, but worked imaginatively to mitigate their circumstances.
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'This slender book is wonderfully crafted. It is the work of a mature economic historian reflecting on the consequences of one of the major economic events of the 20th century., the great depression of the 1930's, and the implications of that event for the behaviour of the rice-growing peasant population primarily residing in the delta of the Irrawaddy River.' -Asian Affairs, Nov 2006

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