Thailand. More than rural: Textures of Thailand's agrarian transformation By Jonathan Rigg Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2019. Pp. 300. Figures, Notes, Bibliography, Index.
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DOI: 10.1017/s0022463423000140
Abstract: gration as an act of liberation against the despotic Qing Empire. The Chinese were seen as a panacea for labour shortages in the Empire after the ban on slavery. Chapter 3 discusses the ‘stimulated interest’… read more here.
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