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

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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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1349228796

ISBN13:9781349228799

Release Date:January 1993

Publisher:Palgrave MacMillan

Length:309 Pages

Weight:1.01 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"

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