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Rice in Malaya: A Study in Historical Geography (Southeast Asian Classic Reprints)
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Paperback. Num Pages: 292 pages. BIC Classification: RGL; TV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Weight in Grams: 456.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
NUS Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
292
Place of Publication
Singapore, Singapore
ISBN
9789971695774
SKU
V9789971695774
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Ref
99-15
About Hill
R.D. Hill is concurrently Honorary Professor in the Department of History and in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Hong Kong. From 1962 until 1973 he taught at the University of Singapore and researched extensively in the Malay Peninsula, especially in Kelantan and Terengganu.
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