Chew - Chinese Pioneers On The Sarawak Frontier 1841-1941. [first Edition].

Oxford-New York, Oxford University Press, 1990. Original coloured glazed heavy boards, cover title with a large black/white illustration. (xx), 280pp. Captioned black/white illustrations on six plates, note on spelling and terminology of Malay language, figures, maps, tables and graphs in text and full-page, endpaper maps with legenda, list of abbreviations used, list of maps, tables, figures and illustrations, appendices 1-8, glossary malay-english, bibliography, index, table of contents. Physical Landscape, ethnographic background; mining pioneers in Bau and economic changes; Traditional patterns of trade in Borneo; Up-River trading and social relations; Organization of Ulu trade; The New Foochow colonists: Social relations and economic transformation; Chinese labourers and the State Economy..Fine copy of this excellent and detailed historiography.