Beyond the tin mines coolies, squatters, and New Villagers in the Kinta Valley, Malaysia, c. 1880-1980
In the 1880s, an estimated 4,000 people lived in the Kinta District of Malaya. Twenty years later, with the discovery of tin deposits, the population had increased to 123,000, comprised mainly of Chinese immigrants who found employment as coolies in the open-cast mines. Although the tin industry was...
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Singapore
Oxford University Press
1988
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| Series: | East Asian historical monographs
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Beyond the tin mines the political economy of chinese squatter farmers in the Kinta new villages, Malaysia