Business, Government, and the End of Empire Malaya, 1942-1957,9789835600081

Business, Government, and the End of Empire Malaya, 1942-1957

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ISBN13: 9789835600081
ISBN10: 9835600082
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1997-05-08
Publisher(s): Oxford University Press
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Summary

This study examines the relations between British business and government during the decolonization period in Malaya. The author examines business-government interactions concerning reconstruction, the Emergency, the transfer of political power, and the development of the rubber industry.

Table of Contents

Preface vii(6)
Tables
xiii(1)
Figures
xiv(1)
Maps
xiv(1)
Plates
xv(2)
Abbreviations xvii(4)
Glossary xxi
Introduction: Economics and the End of Empire 1(22)
The Historiographical Debate 1(4)
Business and Government 5(5)
The Malayan Case-study 10(13)
1 The Nature and Institutions of Colonial Capitalism
23(40)
The Structure of British Business in Malaya
23(11)
The Points of Business-Government Interaction
34(13)
Organizational Continuity and Change, 1945-1957
47(7)
Conclusion
54(9)
2 The Frustration of Development: Reconstructing Malaya, 1942-1948
63(34)
Grand Intentions, 1942-1945
64(6)
The Realities of Metropolitan Circumstance, 1945-1948
70(9)
The Realities of Local Circumstance, 1945-1948
79(8)
Conclusion: A Business-Government Partnership?
87(10)
3 Instability and Insecurity in the Periphery: Combating Communist Insurgency, 1948-1957
97(37)
The Decision-making Process
100(12)
The Protection of British Business
112(7)
The Costs and the Economic Impact of Insurgency
119(4)
Conclusion
123(11)
4 Politics and Economic Management: Transferring Political Power, 1948-1957
134(45)
The Course of Political Development
134(4)
Managing Economic Nationalism
138(17)
Constitution-making
155(9)
The Economic Effects of Political Change
164(3)
Conclusion
167(12)
5 Economic Policy and Primary Production: Maintaining Malayan Rubber, 1947-1957
179(44)
`Raja Rubber'
179(2)
Malaya and the International Economy
181(15)
Malayan Development
196(16)
Conclusion
212(11)
6 Business Strategy and the End of Empire: Managing the Borneo Co. Ltd. in Malaya, 1945-1957
223(39)
History, Organization, and Structure, 1850s to 1950s
224(3)
Politics and the Agency House
227(5)
Corporate Strategy
232(17)
The Financial History of the BCL, 1948-1958
249(3)
Conclusion: `Keeping Ahead of the Game?'
252(10)
Conclusion: Business, Government, and the End of Empire 262
Biographical Appendix 282(14)
Statistical Appendix 296(6)
Bibliography 302(18)
Index 320

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