M. Cleary, FROM HORNBILLS TO OIL - PATTERNS OF INDIGENOUS AND EUROPEAN TRADE IN COLONIAL BORNEO, Journal of historical geography, 23(1), 1997, pp. 29-45
As European interests in South-east Asia developed from the nineteenth
century, a range of colonial and quasi-colonial administrations were
established. One of their prime objectives was the production of a ran
ge of export commodities-timber, minerals, rubber, oil-which were in d
emand on the world market. As the economies of the region were drawn i
nto the world economy, the structure and geography of trading patterns
was altered. The aim of this paper is to examine those changes throug
h an evaluation and analysis of trading statistics for the states of n
orth-west Borneo. The conclusion suggests that the articulation of ind
igenous and foreign capital and production systems was much more compl
ex than models of economic dualism and core-periphery linkages would s
uggest. (C) 1997 Academic Press Limited.