Colonial Green Revolution?: Food, Irrigation and the State in Colonial Malaya

Overton, John

ISBN 10: 0851989128 / ISBN 13: 9780851989129

Verlag: United Kingdom: C A B Intl, 1994

Beschreibung

hardback in fine condition.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 5276

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Colonial Green Revolution?: Food, Irrigation and the State in Colonial Malaya
• Verlag: United Kingdom: C A B Intl
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1994
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0851989128
• ISBN-13: 9780851989129
• Einband: Hardcover
• Zustand: Fine

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Inhaltsangabe

This book investigates the relationship between colonialism and agricultural development. It focuses on Malaysia and rice production and investigates why a green revolution did not take place in colonial times, when in several ways the preconditions were laid for this. It is shown that colonial agricultural policy was based on a low-cost, low-tech model of rural development, which nevertheless offered a sustainable alternative to recent advances in grain production. The book draws on a wide variety of archival data and is aimed at social and agricultural scientists concerned with colonial history, peasant transformations and agricultural change.