Four colonies and a Kingdom: A comparison of fiscal, trade and exchange rate policies in South East Asia in the 1930s

Modern Asian Studies

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 429-460

  Booth, Anne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLONIALISM; EXCHANGE RATE; FISCAL POLICY; HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY; TRADE POLICY; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

ASIA;

EID: 0038322143     PISSN: 0026749X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0026749X03002075     Document Type: Article

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