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Preface This book is part of a series resulting from a five-year international research project (2005–10) funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). Titled “Challenges of the Agrarian Transition in Southeast Asia”, it has involved collaboration between scholars, faculty as well as graduate students from Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam and Singapore as well as Canada, the UK, France and Australia. We therefore wish to thank the SSHRC for its financial support as well as the Asia Research Institute at the National University of Singapore and, in Paris, the Fondation Maison des sciences de l’homme, the Maison Suger and the Institut des études avancées. Several individuals were also very helpful. These include Marc Girard, from the Geography Department at the Université de Montréal, who prepared the maps that illustrate the book, Julie Drolet, Martine Ignat, Ariane and Annie Pelé, and Étienne Turgeon-Pelletier as well as all members of the ChATSEA project, particularly Stéphane Bernard, Jean-François Bissonnette, Rob Cramb, Steve Déry, Derek Hall, Pham Thanh Hai, Phil Hirsch, Phil Kelly, Danielle Labbé, JeanPhilippe Leblond, Tania Li, Gilles Maillet, Melissa Marschke, Lesley Potter, Jonathan Rigg, Steffanie Scott, Pujo Semedi, Louis Tanguay, Bruno Thibert, Sarah Turner, Peter Vandergeest, Chusak Wittayapak and Doracie Zoleta-Nantes. We also wish to thank the anonymous referees of the manuscript, whose comments and recommendations have been very useful. Of course, none of these persons is responsible for any of the mistakes or inaccuracies that may be found in our book. xv ...

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