Chapter 1 A Fresh Approach to Southeast Asian History

Chapter 2 Revenue Farming and the Changing State in Southeast Asia

Chapter 3 Revenue Farming in Comparative Perspective: Reflections on Taxation, Social Structure and Development in the Early-Modern Period

Chapter 4 The Origins of Revenue Farming in Southeast Asia

Chapter 5 Imperialism, Trade and Investment in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

Chapter 6 Chinese Revenue Farm Networks: The Penang Connection

Chapter 7 Trade, Rajas and Bandars in South Bali

Chapter 8 Revenue Farming and State Centralisation in Nineteenth-Century Kedah

Chapter 9 Revenue Farming, Economic Development and Government Policy during the Early Bangkok Period, 1830–92

Chapter 10 The Collapse of Singapore’s Great Syndicate

Chapter 11 The Origins of the Opium Trade and the Opium Regie in Colonial Indochina

Chapter 12 Revenue Farming and Colonial Finances in the Netherlands East Indies, 1816–1925

Chapter 13 The End of the Opium Farm in Siam, 1905–7

Chapter 14 Tan Seng Poh

Chapter 16 Thio Thiau Siat’s Network

Chapter 17 The Khaw Concern

Chapter 18 Oei Tiong Ham