The Rise and Fall of Revenue Farming : Business Elites and the Emergence of the Modern State in Southeast Asia

John Butcher

ISBN 10: 0333562879 / ISBN 13: 9780333562871

Edité par Springer Nature B.V. Aug 1993, 1993

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Neuware - 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.

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• Titre: The Rise and Fall of Revenue Farming : Business Elites and the Emergence of the Modern State in Southeast Asia
• Éditeur: Springer Nature B.V. Aug 1993
• Date de parution: 1993
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0333562879
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780333562871
• Reliure: Buch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 234 L x 156 H x 19 P (en millimètres) 234 millimètres de largeur par 156 millimètres de hauteur par 19 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 637 grammes

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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.