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Salt, Seasons And Sampans: Riverine Trade And Trqansport In Central Thailand, James Hafner
Salt, Seasons And Sampans: Riverine Trade And Trqansport In Central Thailand, James Hafner
James A Hafner
Introduction Since Sir John Bowring first recorded these impressions of the central plain of Thailand in the middle of the last, century, time has unalterably changed the context of his account, though not entirely its accuracy. The ‘feracious jungle’ which covered much of the lower central plain in Bowring's time began to disappear under the plow of the Thai peasant farmer in the latter decades of the last century. By 1900 the landscape had been almost entirely converted to an intensive system of irrigated wet-padi production for export. The establishrnent and growth of this commercial agricultural economy has resulted in …