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Title

The RGA history of the plantation industry in the Malay Peninsula / D.J.M. Tate ; commissioned by The Rubber Growers' Association (Malaysia) Berhad.

Author

Tate, D. J. M.

Publication

New York : Oxford University Press, 1996.

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Additional Authors

• Rubber Growers' Association.
• RGA (Malaysia) Berhad.

Description

xx, 647 pages; 24 cm

Summary

• This is a straightforward history of the modern plantation industry in Peninsular Malaysia, from its origins on the new British settlement of Penang in the 1780s till the days of the Mahathir era 200 years later.
• During this period the industry evolved from an amateurish affair, centred on the cultivation, mainly in Chinese hands, of spices and pepper, sugar and tapioca, into a highly sophisticated and professional one, the mainstays of which were the rubber tree and the oil palm. The period also saw plantation agriculture evolve from an industry whose contribution to the Peninsula's economy was peripheral into one which, for the greater part of the twentieth century, formed its mainstay.
• This book deals not only with the introduction of crops, but also with immigration and settlement, issues of land legislation, revenue and taxation, the politics of rival professional organizations, the labour movement and trade unions, the development of the industry into an adjunct of colonialism, up to the time when the industry was Malaysianized under the New Economic Policy.

Subjects

• Rubber industry and trade > Malay Peninsula > History
• Malay Peninsula > Colonial influence
• Malay Peninsula > History
• Industries > Malay Peninsula > History
• Plantations > Malay Peninsula > History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 621-626) and index.

Contents

• 1. A New Sort of Beginning: The British Settlements in the Straits of Malacca -- 2. The Era of the Amateurs: Planters and Their Problems in the Straits, 1786-c. 1850 -- 3. Land in Travail: Company Officials and Land Issues, 1786-1867 -- 4. Basic Returns: Papper and the Chinese Planter in the Straits -- 5. Pies in the Sky: European Experiments with Cash Crops -- 6. The Spice Mirage -- 7. The Advance of the Shifting Cultivators (1): Johore, Pepper, and the Kangchu System -- 8. The Advanced of the Shifting Cultivators (2): Malacca and the West Coast States -- 9. The Rise and Fall of the Malayan Sugar Plantation Industry (1): Chinese Traditionalists and European Amateurs, c. 1780-1840 -- 10. The Rise and Fall of the Malayan Sugar Plantation Industry (2): The Advent of the Professionals -- 11. The Men From Ceylon: The Coffee-planting Phase, 1870-1900 -- 12. Immigrants on the Cheap: Arranging for the Labour Supply in the Nineteenth Century --
• 13. Labour Pains: Labour Recruitment, 1860-1900: The Search for the Right Formula -- 14. The Planters Find their Voice: Planters and Their Problems at the End of the Nineteenth Century -- 15. The Dark Horse: The Rubber Option and Henry Ridley, 1876-1900 -- 16. The Plantation Revolution: The Rise of Rubber, 1895-1913 -- 17. All in the Family (Almost): The Planter in His Element, 1905-1911 -- 18. 'Once in a Thousand Years ...': The Rise of the Agency House, 1895-1917 -- 19. The Network: The Agency System at Work: The Ascendancy of the Agency Houses -- 20. The London Connection: The Formation of the Rubber Growers' Association (RGA) and Its Initial Role, 1907-1913 -- 21. Getting their Act Together: Government Officials, Captains of Industry, Planters in the Field, and Issues of the Hour -- 22. The First Crisis: The Recession of 1912-1913 and the Onset of the Great War -- 23. Challenge and Transition: The Impact of the Great War and the Generation Transfer, 1915-1919 --
• 24. The Politics of Restriction (1): Planters, Company Directors, and the Depressions -- 25. The Politics of Restriction (2): An Industry at Cross-purposes, 1917-1922: The Stevenson Plan -- 26. The Politics of Restriction (3): The Years of Trial and Error, 1922-1929 -- 27. The Politics of Restriction (4): The Great Depression and International Rubber Regulation, 1929-1934 -- 28. The Role of Research (1): A Question of Organization -- 29. The Role of Research (2): Planters' Choice -- 30. The Role of Research (3): The Technological Edge -- 31. The Alternatives to Rubber (1): Of Coconuts and Pineapples, 1900-1941 -- 32. The Alternatives to Rubber (2): Oil Palm: The Understudy, 1900-1941 -- 33. The Closet Apogee of the RGA: The Working of the IRRA, 1934-1938 -- 34. The Writing on the Wall: The Advent of War: Questions of Rubber Demand and Supply, Production and Costs, 1938-1941 -- 35. Plantations in Eclipse: The Japanese Occupation and the Politics of Rehabilitation, 1941-1948 --
• 36. It Takes Two to Tango: Government, Employers, and Unions: Prelude to the Emergency, 1946-1948 -- 37. The Emergency: Plantations Under Siege, 1948-1961 -- 38. Facing Up to the Inevitable: The View from Above: The RGA and the Powers That Be, 1948-1961 -- 39. Survival Against the Odds: The Challenges to Natural Rubber, 1945-1975 -- 40. The Parting of the Ways: The Transformation of the Plantation Industry, 1957-1982.

ISBN

983560004X (boards)

LCCN

96006167

OCLC

• 34284989
• ocm34284989

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries