Globalization: Perak's Rise, Relative Decline, and Regeneration

Written by Sultan Nazrin Shah - the author of the highly acclaimed works Charting the Economy and Striving for Inclusive Development - this book is a pioneering study of the many economic and social changes in the natural resource-rich Malaysian state of Perak over the last two centuries.

When globalization first took hold and international trade networks broadened and deepened in the first half o...