‘Where the Sandalwood Is Born’: East Timor Until the Mid-Eighteenth Century

Mats Lundahl () and Fredrik Sjöholm
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Mats Lundahl: Stockholm School of Economics

Chapter Chapter 1 in The Creation of the East Timorese Economy, 2019, pp 1-63 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract This chapter describes the economic, political and social development of East Timor until the mid-eighteenth century. Immigrants from Melanesia and from Asia populated Timor and formed societies based on kinship and locality. A variety of food crops was introduced into a system of slash-and-burn shifting agriculture, which has persisted up to modern times, an agricultural system which interacted with the political system through the payment of tributes. The arrival of Europeans started a process that did not end until Timor was colonized by the Portuguese. The main attraction for foreign powers was large stands of sandalwood, which was traded globally. However, East Timor remained a peripheral country with a low economic integration with other regions.

Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-19466-6_1

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