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- Rice in Malaya
- Book
- 2012
- Published by: NUS Press Pte Ltd
summary
Rice is a staple part of the diet of virtually every Malaysian, to the extent that in each of the major languages used in Malaysia, rice means food and food means rice. Drawing on a wide range of sources, Rice in Malaya opens with an examination of the often fragmentary evidence of rice-growing in prehistoric South-East Asia and then considers the great changes that followed the rise of commercial agriculture in the region before and during colonial times. A pioneering work when it first appeared in 1977, Rice in Malaya successfully combined the area-by-area approach of the geographer with the period-by-period approach of the historian to give a well-balance picture of rice-growing. The comprehensive use of evidence in several languages made the study the definitive work in the field. This re-issue of Rice in Malaya makes a classic work of scholarship available to a new generation of readers. The book remains of great importance not only to geographers, historians, agriculturalists and economists but also to anyone with an interest in South-East Asia, for it explains in great measure many of the deeply-etched patterns of life found in modern Malaysia.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright Page
- pp. i-iv
- Acknowledgements
- pp. xiv-xv
- Abbreviations
- pp. xvi-xvii
- A Preliminary Note
- p. xviii
- Introduction: The Making of Rice in Malaya
- pp. xix-xxvi
- 2. Rice in Early Historical Times
- pp. 14-29
- 6. The Northern Centre: Perak
- pp. 105-134
- 8. The Marchlands
- pp. 163-194
- 9. Pattern and Process
- pp. 195-230
- Bibliography
- pp. 237-256
Additional Information
ISBN
9789971696108
Related ISBN(s)
9789971695774
MARC Record
OCLC
794698892
Pages
292
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No