Transcript colonial econ and social trans 2

d. French drainage of the
Mekong Delta, ca. 1860s
for rice, rubber, & tea for
French planters
3. Plantation dominance –
Philippines
a. export agriculture of
tobacco, hemp, coffee, &
sugar)
b. food plantations (rice, corn,
cattle, etc.)
c. agriculture monoculture problems
(disease, pests & market
vulnerability)
B. Social Transformations
1. permanent landless agricultural
laborer class
2. drastic increase in tenancy
3. permanent upper class of rulerlandowners
4. squeezed small landowner &
peasants
5. no/very little social mobility
6. large internal population shifts
disrupt social life
7. international importation of
laborers to Burma (India) &
Malaya (India & China)
 long-term communal-
ethnic tensions