Gateway cities and urbanisation in Southeast Asia before World War II
Between the 1870s and World War II, falls in world shipping costs and Western industrialisation gave rise to export-led Southeast Asian growth and specialization in a narrow range of primary commodity exports. A linked development was the emergence of a few dominant Southeast Asian urban centres, t...
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University of Oxford
2012
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