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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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University of Oxford
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Oxford Economic and Social History Working Papers
Publication date:
2012-02-03
Paper number:
96

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