1. Ports, telegraphs and railways at the new globalization era in Southeast Asia -- 2. The French railway to China: The Red River railway -- 3. The Dutch East India railway in Java -- 4. The Philippine railway: a link with Hong Kong -- 5. Conclusion.

Except for the Philippines between 1896 and 1939, Southeast Asia was never part of the century-long East Asian industrial catching up until after World War II. Before the 1950s, Southeast Asian manufacturing hardly grew at all: while commodity export processing did grow fast, import-competing...

volume 1. General introduction agriculture -- volume 2. Mining, trade and industry -- volume 3. The building blocks of development : governance, transport and communications, and human and financial capital index.

part Agriculture -- part Watson, The Land Laws and Land Administration of the Federated Malay States (1908) -- chapter R. G. Watson, the Land Laws and Land Administration of the Federated Malay States (1908) -- part Grist, Malaya: Agriculture, ‘Land Tenure’ (1929) -- chapter D. H....

v. 1. General introduction. Agriculture -- v. 2. Mining, trade and industry -- v. 3. The building blocks of development : governance, transport and communciations, and human and financial capital. Index.

Chapter 1 What Kind of Book is This? -- Chapter 2 The World that Trade Created -- Chapter 3 The Military Revolution in the Era of Early Economic Globalization -- Chapter 4 The Big Shuffle: theEast Asian World in the Era of Early Economic Globalization -- Chapter 5 Fighting on Sea and Land:...