TY - BOOK AU - KAUR Amarjit (ed.) AU - METCALFE Ian (ed.) TI - The shaping of Malaysia SN - 0333693752 (hbk.): PY - 1999/// CY - Basingstoke, Hants. PB - Macmillan KW - CULTURES KW - ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT KW - ECOTOURISM KW - ENVIRONMENT KW - GEOLOGY KW - HISTORY KW - MALAYSIA KW - NATURAL RESOURCES KW - POLITICS N2 - A general study which provides a systematic description and analysis of the factors that shaped Malaysia. It brings together studies on the country's geological origins and mineral resources, flora, fauna,peoples and cultures, political change, economy and society, environment and ecotourism. Attempts to make Malaysia's current political and economic development more explicable by considering it in the light of these natural and human resources ER -