Of Free Trade and Native Interests: The Brookes and the Economic Development of Sarawak, 1841–1941

Product Description This study examines in detail the economic history of Sarawak during the period of Brooke rule from the mid-nineteenth century to the beginning of the Second World War. It sets out to prove that the Brookes sacrificed economic development in favor of what they perceived to be the generalwelfare of the indigenous people. Review "the first substantial economic history of the state." Nicholas Tarling, The International History Review XXI, 2, June 1999 About the Author Ooi Keat Gin is at Universiti Sains Malaysia.