The Rise and Fall of Revenue Farming

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xviii

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2. Themes and Perspectives

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. A Fresh Approach to Southeast Asian History

      • Howard Dick

      Pages 3-18

   3. Revenue Farming and the Changing State in Southeast Asia

      • John Butcher

      Pages 19-44

   4. Revenue Farming in Comparative Perspective: Reflections on Taxation, Social Structure and Development in the Early-Modern Period

      • Ian Copland, Michael R. Godley

      Pages 45-68

   5. The Origins of Revenue Farming in Southeast Asia

      • Anthony Reid

      Pages 69-79

   6. Imperialism, Trade and Investment in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

      • Ian Brown

      Pages 80-88

   7. Chinese Revenue Farm Networks: The Penang Connection

      • Michael R. Godley

      Pages 89-99

3. Country Studies

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 101-101

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   2. Trade, Rajas and Bandars in South Bali

      • Alfons van der Kraan

      Pages 103-124

   3. Revenue Farming and State Centralisation in Nineteenth-Century Kedah

      • Khoo Khay Jin

      Pages 125-141

   4. Revenue Farming, Economic Development and Government Policy during the Early Bangkok Period, 1830–92

      • Constance M. Wilson

      Pages 142-165

   5. The Collapse of Singapore’s Great Syndicate

      • Carl A. Trocki

      Pages 166-181

   6. The Origins of the Opium Trade and the Opium Regie in Colonial Indochina

      • Hakiem Nankoe, Jean-Claude Gerlus, Martin J. Murray

      Pages 182-195

   7. Revenue Farming and Colonial Finances in the Netherlands East Indies, 1816–1925

      • F. W. Diehl

      Pages 196-232

   8. The End of the Opium Farm in Siam, 1905–7

      • Ian Brown

      Pages 233-245

4. Tax Farmers and Business Strategy

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 247-247

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   2. Tan Seng Poh

      • Carl A. Trocki

      Pages 249-254

   3. Loke Yew

      • John Butcher

      Pages 255-261

   4. Thio Thiau Siat’s Network

      • Michael R. Godley

      Pages 262-266

Until the early 1900s governments of Southeast Asia farmed out the right to run opium, gambling and other monopolies. Yet by about 1920 all of the major farms had been abolished and the collection of revenue brought under direct bureaucratic control. This book explains the rise and sudden fall of revenue farming, traces the changing fortunes of the Chinese businessmen who held the major farms, and uses the study of revenue farming to examine the emergence of the modern state in Southeast Asia.

• economic development
• finance
• Monopol
• taxation
• trade

• Griffith University, Nathan, Australia

  John Butcher

• University of Newcastle, Australia

  Howard Dick

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