ABSTRACT

This collection focuses on the economic development of the areas of SE Asia with which Britain had a trading relationship. Covering 1880-1939, the economic growth of the region is revealed through a selection of rare primary resources organized thematically with sections dedicated to agriculture, mining, trade, labour, finance and infrastructure.

part |16 pages

Agriculture

part |34 pages

Watson, The Land Laws and Land Administration of the Federated Malay States (1908)

part |7 pages

Grist, Malaya: Agriculture, ‘Land Tenure’ (1929)

part |8 pages

Anon., The Land Regulations of British North Borneo, 1894: Approved by the Court of Directors of the British North Borneo Company, on the 5th Day of June, 1894 (1894)

part |9 pages

Wray, Notes on Perak with a Sketch of its Vegetable, Animal and Mineral Products (1886)

part |9 pages

Anon., General Cultivation (1924)

chapter |7 pages

Anon.,General Cultivation(1924)

part |13 pages

G. E. Shaw, Malay Industries. Part 3. Rice Planting (1911)

part |13 pages

Anon., ‘Report of the Rice Cultivation Committee, 1931. Volume 1’ (1931)

part |6 pages

Jordan, ‘Memorandum. Rice Cultivation by Chinese in Malaya’, 11th October, 1930’ (1930)

part |21 pages

Noel-Paton, Burma Rice (1912)

chapter |19 pages

F.Noel-Paton, Burma Rice (1912)

part |17 pages

Macfadyen, Rubber Planting in Malaya (1924)

part |20 pages

Grist, Nationality of Ownership and Nature of Constitution of Rubber Estates in Malaya (1933)

part |10 pages

Anon., Report of the Commission Appointed by His Excellency the High Commissioner for the Malay States to Enquire Whether any Action Should be Taken by the Government to Give Protection or Asssistance to the Rubber Industry (1918)

part |19 pages

Anon., Economic Survey of the Sugarcane Industry in the East Central, Tenasseria and Northern Agricultural Circles (1926)

part |6 pages

Grist, Malaya: Agriculture, ‘Oil Palms’ (1929)

part |19 pages

Coghlan, Coconut Industry in Malaya (1924)

part |18 pages

Anon., Report of a Committee … To Investigate and Report on the Present Economic Condition of the Coconut and Other Vegetable Oil Producing Industries in Malaya (1934)

part |15 pages

Cubitt, Wood in the Federated Malay States: Its Use, Misuse and Future Provision (1920)

part |14 pages

Mead, Annual Report on Forest Administration in Malaya Including Brunei, 1939 (1939)

part |9 pages

‘Notes on Forest Exploitation and the Forestry Service’ in British North Borneo and Dutch N.E Borneo’ ([1937])

part |12 pages

Anon., Forestry in Brunei: A Statement Prepared for the British Empire Forestry Conference, South Africa, 1935 (1935)

part |4 pages

Anon., Burma Teak(l935)

chapter |2 pages

Anon., Burma Teak (1935),extract

part |6 pages

German, Handbook to British Malaya (1927)

part |18 pages

Winstedt, Malay Industries. Part 2. Fishing, Hunting and Trapping (1909)

part |14 pages

Maxwell, Preliminary Report on the Economic Position of the Fishing Industry of the Straits Settlements and Federated Malay States (1919)