Malaya’s greatest menace? Slow-onset disaster and the muddy politics of British Malaya, c. 1900–50
In 1948, a chilling statement from British Malaya’s Director of Agriculture, F. Burnett, made headline news. According to Burnett, unchecked soil erosion across hillside Malaya would soon render the country’s precious agricultural land infertile. Erosion had worsened considerably after the 1880s due...
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2018
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