Colonial Legacies
Subtitle: Economic and Social Development in East and Southeast Asia
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press; University of Hawaiʻi Press
Published: October 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 241
ISBN-13: 9780824831615
Subjects: Central government policies; Colonization & independence; Development economics; Economic history; History; Business / Economics / Finance; History: World; East Asia, Far East; South East Asia; Asia - Southeast Asia; Modern - 20th Century; 20th century; Colonial influence; Economic Conditions; Social conditions; Southeast Asia
Description: "It is well known that Taiwan and South Korea, both former Japanese colonies, achieved rapid growth and industrialization after 1960. The performance of former European and American colonies (Malaysia, Singapore, Burma, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Indonesia, and the Philippines) has been less impressive. Some scholars have attributed the difference to better infrastructure and greater access to education in Japans colonies. Anne Booth examines and critiques such arguments in this ambitious comparative study of economic development in East and Southeast Asia from the beginning of the twentieth century until the 1960s."--Jacket.