British Economic Development in South East Asia, 1880–1939, Volume 3: The Building Blocks of Development: Governance, Transport and Communications, and Human and Financial Capital

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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. Contents Governance Anon., Report on the Working of the Municipalities of British Burma for the Year 1882–83 (1883) Transport and Communications L. Wray Jr, Notes on Perak with a Sketch of its Vegetable, Animal and Mineral Products (1886), extract Anon., Fifty Years of Railways in Malaya, 1885–1935 (1935), extract C. S. Alexander, British Malaya: Malayan Statistics (1928), extract K. Nankivell, A Report on Highways (1936), extract Anon., ‘A Pioneer Shipping Agency. History of Mansfield & Co.’, The Singapore Free Press Exhibition Supplement, 2 January 1932 (1932), extract Anon., ‘The British India Steam Navigation Company Mail and Indian Immigration Contract, 1923’ (1923), extract Anon., Report of the Commission on the Eastern Shipping or Straits Homeward Conference as Affecting the Trade of the Colony (1902), extract Anon., ‘Report on the Development and Progress of Civil Aviation in Malaya up to and including the Year 1937’ (1937), extract Anon., ‘Growth of the Postal Service. Illuminating Facts and Figures’, The Singapore Free Press Exhibition Supplement, 2 January 1932 (1932), extract Human Capital C. A. Vlieland, British Malaya: A Report on the 1931 Census (1932), extract C. S Alexander, British Malaya: Malayan Statistics (1928), extract P. N. Gerrard, On the Hygienic Management of Labour in the Tropics. An Essay (1913), extract N. E. Marjoribanks and A. K. G. Marakkayar, Report on Indian Labour Emigrating to Ceylon and Malaya (1917), extract Anon., ‘Indians in Malaya’ (1926), extract W. L. Blythe, Methods and Conditions of Employment of Chinese Labour in the Federated Malay States (1938), extract Governor to British North Borneo Company, 21 December 1923 (1923), extract Anon., Proceedings and Report of the Commission Appointed to Inquire into the Cause of the Present Housing Difficulties in Singapore, Volume 1 (1918), extract Anon., ‘Memorandum Regarding the Provision of Housing and Hospital Accommodation for Labour in Burma’ (1920), extract Financial Capital Straits Settlements Government Loan. Issue of £4 per cent. Five Year Convertible Bonds Sufficient to Raise £5,000,000. Authorised by Ordinance No. 4 of 1907 (1907) Anon., Average Prices, Declared Trade Values, Exchange and Currency, Volume and Average Volume of Imports and Exports, Market Prices and Cost of Living (1930), extract Anon., Average Prices, Declared Trade Values, Exchange and Currency, Volume and Average Volume of Imports and Exports, Market Prices and Cost of Living (1939), extract J. O. Anthonisz, Currency Reform in the Straits Settlements (1915), extract R. L. German, Handbook to British Malaya (1927), extract W. T. Cherry, Elementary Business Practice in the Straits Settlements and Federated Malay States. With Questions and Examples (1915), extract C. S. Alexander, British Malaya: Malayan Statistics (1928), extract C. F. Strickland., Report on Co-operation in Malaya (1929), extract Editorial Notes List of Sources Index