Prosperity without Progress / Norman G. Owen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Owen, Norman G., Author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (336 p.)

Edition:

Reprint 2020

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1984.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

ILLUSTRATIONS

TEXT TABLES

ABBREVIATIONS

PREFACE

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

AUTHOR'S NOTE

PROLOGUE. The End of the Eighteenth-Century World

CHAPTER ONE. Setting the Stage

CHAPTER TWO. Merchant Houses and Manila Hemp

CHAPTER THREE. Abaca in Kabikolan

CHAPTER FOUR. Subsistence and Survival

CHAPTER FIVE. Alternatives to Abaca

CHAPTER SIX. Services and Cities

CHAPTER SEVEN. Development and Dependency

APPENDIX A: ABACA PRICES AND EXPORTS, 1818-1940

APPENDIX B: ABACA PRICES IN PESOS AND DOLLARS, 1870-1902

APPENDIX C: ABACA PRODUCTION, 1850-1938

Appendix D: Population by District (000), 1794 -1938

APPENDIX E: ECONOMIC INDICATORS, 1845-1939

GLOSSARY

SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Okt 2020)

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9780520335820

0520335821

OCLC:

1198929391