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Agricultural Expansion as a Tool of Population Redistribution in Southeast Asia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 April 2011

Rodolphe De Koninck  and
Steve Déry
Steve Déry
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Université Laval
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Abstract

Throughout history and throughout most major regions of the world, the expansion of agricultural land has served as a tool of population redistribution and has also played a key role in the formation and consolidation of States. This appears particularly true in twentieth-century Southeast Asia, as can be observed from case studies of the Philippines, Indonesia, Vietnam and Thailand developed in this article, and may contribute to the originality and dynamism of State formation in the region.

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Journal of Southeast Asian Studies , Volume 28 , Issue 1 , March 1997 , pp. 1 - 26
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Copyright © The National University of Singapore 1997

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The authors wish to thank the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada for its financial support (Grants nos. 410–93–1391 and 96–1145) as well as the following persons: Andrée Gauthier, Claire G. Daigle, Christine Veilleux, Lyne Chabot, Stéphane Bernard and Yann Roche.

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