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

by John G. Butcher and Howard W. Dick

Book Overview

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333562879
• ISBN13: 9780333562871
• Release Date: August 1993
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 309 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"