Rice in Malaya. A Study in Historical Geography
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2880587 |
|---|---|
| Authors | J E Spencer (0000-0003-4464-6332, University of California, Los Angeles, corresponding author), R D Hill (0009-0008-5238-2836) |
| Year | 1978 |
| Volume | 51 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 694 |
| Publication date | 1978-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Pacific Affairs (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0030-851X • E-ISSN: 1715-3379 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2757285 |
| OpenAlex | W2124812722 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 24 |
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 period-by-period approach of the historian to give a well-balanced picture of rice-growing. The comprehensive use of evidence in several languages made the study the definitive work in the field. This re-issued of Rice in Malaya makes a classic work of scholarship available to a new generation of readers. The book remains of great importance not only to geographers, historians, agriculturalists and economists but also to anyone with an interest in South-East Asia, for it explains in great measure many of the deeply-etched patterns of life found in modern Malaysia
Economic geography · Geography · Historical geography · Human geography · Asian Studies and History · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies
Managing a Tropical Environment
Swidden Farming as an Agent of Environmental Change
Increasing the understanding and use of natural archives of ecosystem services, resilience and thresholds to improve policy, science and practice
The Emergence of Abandoned Paddy Fields in Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia
A fossil pollen diagram from the Toba highlands of North Sumatra and its relevance to cultural history
Chettiar Capital and the Emergence of the Chinese Bourgeois in British Malaya
Penghijrahan Dalaman Masyarakat Melayu dan Sumbangannya kepada Sektor Penanaman Padi di Kerian, Perak (1874–1941)
Late Holocene climatic change in Southeast Asia
Pawangs on the Frontier
Twentieth-Century Malayan Economic History
The growth linkages controversy
Agricultural Change and Ethnic Succession in Southeast Asian States
Forces and Influences behind the Development of Upland Cash Cropping in North-East Thailand
Travail, espace, pouvoir dans les rizières du Kedah, Malaysia
Patterns of evolution in rice-growing societies
The Economy of Perak in the Mid-1870s
Rinderpest and Foot and Mouth Disease
Perkembangan Kegiatan Perusahaan Dalam Kalangan Masyarakat Melayu Di Terengganu, 1900-1941
The Role of Estate Garden Allotments in the Socioeconomic Development of Tamil Labourers in the Federated Malay States, 1900-1941
In the Shadow of Rice
Population, Economy and Environment in Island Southeast Asia
From the mountains to the valleys
Semelai agricultural patterns
The ‘Indianization’ of Southeast Asia
| Unique citing works | 24 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,49 |
| Citation span | 1977 - 2025 (49) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |