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Gateway cities and urbanisation in Southeast Asia before World War II
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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, typically primate and always ports. Drawing on historical census data, this paper uses rank-size distributions and transition matrices to investigate the influence of commodity specialisation and e...
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- Publisher:
- University of Oxford
- Series:
- Oxford Economic and Social History Working Papers
- Publication date:
- 2012-02-03
- Paper number:
- 96
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1143838
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- 2012
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- Copyright 2012 The Author(s)
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