The Rise and Fall of Revenue Farming: Business Elites and the Emergence of the Modern State in Southeast Asia

List of Tables - List of Maps - List of Figures - Preface - Notes on Weights and Currencies - Notes on Abbreviations - Notes on the Contributors - PART 1: THEMES AND PERSPECTIVE - A Fresh Approach to Southeast Asian History H.Dick - Revenue Farming and the Changing State in Southeast Asia J.Butcher - Revenue Farming in Comparative Perspective: Reflections on Taxation, Social Structure and Development in the Early-Modern Period I.Copland & M.R.Godley - The Origins of Revenue Farming: Southeast Asian or Exotic? A.Reid - Imperialism, Trade and Investment in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries I.Brown - Chinese Revenue Farm Networks: The Penang Connection M.R.Godley - PART 2: COUNTRY STUDIES - Trade, Rajas and Bandars in South Bali A.van der Kraan - Revenue Farming and State Centralisation in Nineteenth Century Kedah K.K.Jin - Revenue Farming, Economic Development and Government Policy during the Early Bangkok Period, 1830-92 C.M.Wilson - The Collapse of Singapore's Great Syndicate C.A.Trocki - The Origins of the Opium Trade and the Opium Regie in Colonial Indochina H.Nankoe, J-C.Gerlus & M.J.Murray - Revenue Farming and Colonial Finances in the Netherlands East Indies, 1816-1925 F.W.Diehl - The End of the Opium Farm in Siam, 1905-7 I.Brown - PART 3: TAX FARMERS AND BUSINESS STRATEGY - Tan Seng Poh C.A.Trocki - Loke Yew J.Butcher - Thio Thiau Siat M.R.Godley - The Khaw Concern J.W.Cushman & M.R.Godley - Oei Tiong Ham H.Dick - Glossary - Bibliography and References - Index