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Indigenous Trade and European Economic Intervention in North-West Borneo c.1860–1930

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

M. C. Cleary
M. C. Cleary
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University of Plymouth
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The soil and productions of this country are of the richest description, and it is not too much to say, that within the same given space, there are not to be found the same mineral and vegetable riches in any land in the world (James Brooke, 1838).

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Modern Asian Studies , Volume 30 , Issue 2 , May 1996 , pp. 301 - 324
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1996

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