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Colonial Legacies: Economic and Social Development in East and Southeast Asia

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This book attempts a comparative study of the economic and social development of colonial territories in East and Southeast Asia in the first four decades of the twentieth century and of the consequences of that development for the transition to independence after 1945. At the beginning of the twentieth century, five colonial powers were active in East and Southeast Asia. Three were European. The British controlled from Delhi the vast South Asian subcontinent that extended from the Khyber Pass in the west to the borders of Buma with China, and with the independent Kingdom of Thailand in the east. In Southeast Asia, they controlled most of the Malayan peninsula, including the strategic port of Singapore, which was developed into an important British naval base. The Dutch governed the huge Indonesian archipelago. from Sumatra to New Guinea, and the French controlled to contiguous territories of Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos, a region known as French Indochina.

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Call Number

RD 330.95 Boo c

Publisher

Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press., 2007

Collation

x + 242 pp.

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

9780824831615

Classification

330.95

Content Type

digital text

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Edition

12th ed.

Subject(s)

Economic History
Colonialism

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Statement of Responsibility

Anne E. Booth

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