Port-Centered Transport Development in Colonial North Sumatra
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7296577 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Christopher A Airrie (0000-0003-3588-5905, corresponding author), CHRISTOPHER AIRRIESS |
| Year | 1995 |
| Volume | 59 |
| Pages | 65-65 |
| Publication date | 1995-04-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Indonesia (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0019-7289 • E-ISSN: 2164-8654 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3351128 |
| OpenAlex | W2333749692 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
From the middle 1800s to World War Two, the northeast coast of Sumatra emerged as the most productive plantation district in the archipelago and indeed one of the most pro ductive colonial plantation districts in the tropical world (Fig. 1).Supplying foreign markets with a variety of plantation products including rubber, oil palm, tea, coffee, tobacco, and Manila hemp, the region became known worldwide as Oostkust Cultuurgebeid or East Coast Plantation District.1Over a seventy-year period there developed a system of estuarinesituated ports along a 350 kilometer mangrove-clothed coastline servicing this productive plantation region.As nodes linking land and maritime transportation, these ports func tioned as points of economic exchange and articulation between this resource frontier region and the distant resource consuming regions of the industrialized world
Agroforestry · Archaeology · Archipelago · China · Colonialism · Economics · Economy · Fishery · Frontier · Geography · Mangrove · Port (circuit theory · Resource (disambiguation · Asian Studies and History · Engineering · Environmental Science · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · Socioeconomic Development in Asia
Recharting ‘informal empire’
Railways, railman and revolution
Inter-islands Dynamic Economy
Infrastructure and influence
Wartime imaginings of an archipelagic community
The spatial determinants of innovation diffusion
The return of the plantation? Historical and contemporary trends in the relation between plantations and smallholdings in Southeast Asia
| Citations per year | 0.54 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2013 - 2026 (14) |
| Highly cited | No |