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Article: Southeast Asian Exports since the 14th Century: Cloves, Pepper, Coffee, and Sugar.(Review)
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- Journal of Southeast Asian Studies
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- September 1, 1999
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Southeast Asian Exports since the 14th Century: Cloves, Pepper, Coffee, and Sugar. Compiled by DAVID BULBECK, ANTHONY REID, LAY CHENG TAN and YIQU WU. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 1998. Pp, xii, 195. Graphs, Maps, Tables, Bibliography.
Southeast Asia, like other non-Western areas, has often been thought to be economically static and predominantly a region of subsistence production prior to the European "age of capitalism" in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This book uses its graphs and statistical tables to demonstrate that Southeast Asia from at least the fourteenth century was subject to constant changes that resulted from ...