Dr. Ronald Seavoy recently published his tenth book, entitled: Mining Agriculture Religion: The Three Frontiers of Indonesian Borneo in 1970.  It is a study of economic development when Indonesia reentered the global economy after a period of post-independence stagnation.  It is based on his residence in Indonesia for 18 months in 1970-1971 when he worked as a senior exploration geologist for ALCOA in grassroots exploration for bauxite (ore of aluminum) and nickel laterite (ore of nickel).  This was the field experience for writing four books: Famine in Peasant Societies, Famine in East Africa: Food Production and Food Policies, Subsistence and Economic Development, Origins and Growth of the Global Economy from the Fifteenth Century Onward, and this book.

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