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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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)
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)
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)
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)