Southeast Asia
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Long before Southeast Asia emerged as one of the world's most strategically vital regions, E. H. G. Dobby was mapping its contours with scholarly precision — not merely its mountains and coastlines, but its peoples, economies, and the colonial forces that had shaped them. Southeast Asia presents a comprehensive geographical survey of the region, chronicling the physical landscape, demographic patterns, agricultural systems, and political structures of countries stretching from Burma and Malaya to the Philippines and Indonesia, grounding each analysis in rigorous fieldwork and academic authority. Dobby, a distinguished Professor of Geography at the University of Malaya, Singapore, writes with the rare credibility of a scholar who lived and worked within the region he documents. His style is authoritative yet accessible, blending empirical data with incisive observations on colonialism, resource exploitation, and the pressures of modernisation bearing down on traditional societies. A landmark academic text that bridges the disciplines of geography, history, and political economy, Southeast Asia remains an indispensable lens through which to understand how this remarkable region was defined — and why its boundaries, both physical and cultural, continue to be contested.
Author: E. H. G. Dobby
Format: Hardback
Genre: Asian history
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Long before Southeast Asia emerged as one of the world's most strategically vital regions, E. H. G. Dobby was mapping its contours with scholarly precision — not merely its mountains and coastlines, but its peoples, economies, and the colonial forces that had shaped them. Southeast Asia presents a comprehensive geographical survey of the region, chronicling the physical landscape, demographic patterns, agricultural systems, and political structures of countries stretching from Burma and Malaya to the Philippines and Indonesia, grounding each analysis in rigorous fieldwork and academic authority. Dobby, a distinguished Professor of Geography at the University of Malaya, Singapore, writes with the rare credibility of a scholar who lived and worked within the region he documents. His style is authoritative yet accessible, blending empirical data with incisive observations on colonialism, resource exploitation, and the pressures of modernisation bearing down on traditional societies. A landmark academic text that bridges the disciplines of geography, history, and political economy, Southeast Asia remains an indispensable lens through which to understand how this remarkable region was defined — and why its boundaries, both physical and cultural, continue to be contested.