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Economic Reorganization and the Slump in South and Southeast Asia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 June 2009

Christopher Baker
Christopher Baker
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Queen's College, Cambridge
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It was rather bold of Furnivall, less than a decade after the event, to announce that the Depression had brough to an end the history of European overseas expansion over almost half a millennium. Against a background of renewed disorder in the international economy, the current historiography seems to be taking this bold suggestion fairly seriously. The 1930s slump is now the accepted starting point for studies of the relations between the west and the rest in the postcolonial era.

Type
The Autonomy of the Dependent
Information
Comparative Studies in Society and History , Volume 23 , Issue 3 , July 1981 , pp. 325 - 349
Copyright
Copyright © Society for the Comparative Study of Society and History 1981

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An earlier version of this paper was presented to the Anglo-Dutch Conference on Comparative Colonial History, sponsored by the Social Science Research Council (U.K.), and held in St. Catharine's College, Cambridge, in June 1979. I am grateful to the participants in this conference, to Ian Brown, and to Acharn Pasuk, for criticism, help, and encouragement.

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