Iohannes Sydenham Furnivall

Iohannes Sydenham Furnivall (John Sydenham Furnivall; natus die 14 Februarii 1878 apud Great Bentley Essexiae; mortuus die 7 Iulii 1960 Cantabrigiae) fuit alumnus Aulae Trinitatis Cantabrigiensis, stator Birmaniae Britannicae ab anno 1902 usque in 1923, scriptor de re imperiali et de Birmania. Anno 1910 cum aliis condidit Societas Scientiarum Birmanicarum (Burma Research Society). In Anglia reversus fuit praelector linguae, legis et rerum gestarum Birmanicarum in universitate Cantabrigiensi ab anno 1936 usque ad 1941.

Opera

An Introduction to the Political Economy of Burma (Rangoon: Burma Book Club, 1931)
"Christianity and Buddhism in Burma: an address to the Rangoon Diocesan Council, August, 1929" (Rangoon: Peoples Literature Committee and House, 1930)
An introduction to the history of Netherlands India, 1602-1836 (Rangoon: Burma Book Club, 1933)
Wealth in Burma (1937)
Netherlands India: a study of plural economy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1939)
"The fashioning of Leviathan" in Journal of the Burma Research Society vol. 29 (1939) pp. 1-138
Progress and welfare in Southeast Asia: a comparison of colonial policy and practice (New York: Secretariat, Institute of Pacific Relations, 1941)
Problems of education in Southeast Asia (New York: International Secretariat, Institute of Pacific Relations, 1942)
Educational Progress in South East Asia (1943)
"Memorandum on reconstruction problems in Burma" (New York: International Secretariat, Institute of Pacific Relations, 1944)
The tropical Far East (London: Oxford University Press, 1945)
Experiment in Independence (1947)
Colonial Policy and Practice: A Comparative Study of Burma and Netherlands India (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1948)
The Government of Modern Burma (New York: International Secretariat, Institute of Pacific Relations, 1958. 2a ed. 1960)
An introduction to the political economy of Burma (3a ed. Rangoon: Peoples' Literature Committee and House, 1957)
(cum aliis) Studies in the Economic and Social Development of the Netherlands East Indies

External links

De archivo J. S. Furnivall apud Scholam Scientiarum Orientalium et Africanarum Londiniensem

Bibliographia

Necrologia in The Times (Londinii, 12 Iulii 1960)
Walter C. Neale, William C. Schaniel, "John Sydenham Furnivall: An unknown institutionalist" in Journal of Economic Issues vol. 36 (2002) pp. 201-207
Julie Pham, "Ghost hunting in colonial Burma: nostalgia, paternalism and the thoughts of J. S. Furnivall" in South East Asia Research vol. 12 (2004) pp. 237-268.
R. H. Taylor, An undeveloped state: the study of modern Burma's politics (Melbourne: Monash University's Centre of Southeast Asian Studies, Working Paper No 28, 1983)
John Viar, Economic Development in Plural Societies: the institutional economics of J. S. Furnivall (dissertatio universitatis Tennessee, Knoxville, 1993)