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THE ECONOMIC SUCCESS OF EAST AND SOUTHEAST ASIA CHALLENGES THE VERITIES OF WESTERN HISTORICAL UNIQUENESS. IT SHATTERS THE ETHNOCENTRIC NOTION THAT INDUSTRIALIZATION IS A REWARD FOR PROTESTANTISM. THE EAST ASIAN MIRACLE IS TAKING PLACE WITHIN ANOTHER ETHNIC. THIS ARTICLE ADDRESSES SIGNAL QUESTIONS ABOAUT THE PHENOMENON: WILL IT GO ON; WHAT TYPE OF POLITY AND SOCIETY WILL EVENTUALLY SETTLE DOWN ALONGSIDE THE WESTERN WORLD; AND, WHAT WILL BE THE IMPLICATIONS FOR THE THIRD WORLD OF ANOTHER ETHNOCENTISM: GROWTH-THROUGH-CONFUCIANISM?

Records of the breeding status of known-age male southern elephant seals at Macquarie I. were kept
during five breeding seasons between 1969 and 1976. The seven status categories used were: beachmaster,
secure assistant, medium harem owner, insecure assistant, small harem owner, attending bachelor,
avoiding bachelor. There was a progressive increase in breeding status with age; none younger than
10-y-old bred: 16% of 10-y-olds, 30% of 11-y-olds and 55% of 12-y-olds did so; none younger than
12-y-old attained secure assistant status. At the earliest, beachmaster status may be attained at 14 y
old, but no beachmasters of known age were recorded. Due to mortality and competition, most males
do not breed and few breed for more than two seasons. Problems associated with the precise definition
of status categories are discussed.

On Macquarie Island from December 1973 to March 1975 the diet of feral domestic cats (Felis catus) was estimated. There was rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus) in 82% of faeces and 71% of guts, rabbits under 600 g bodyweight, about 10 weeks old, were 81% of all rabbits eaten. There were Antarctic prion (Pachyptila desolata) and white-headed petrel (Pterodroma lessonii). Cats ate small numbers of rats, mice and wekas and scavenged on dead elephant seals and penguins, especially in winter. Availability of food in winter seemed to be an important factor limiting the population; adult population was estimated to be 250 to 500 and the area of the island is 120 km2. Prion and white-headed petrel nest in burrows; there was little or no predation by cats on surface nesters such as albatross, giant petrel, southern skua or southern black-backed gull, or on live penguin.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Editor's Introduction -- The Background -- The Springs of Agricultural Productivity -- General -- Advances in Husbandry Technique -- Improvements in Agrarian Organitation -- Contributions to Economic Development -- The Supply of Food and Raw Materials -- The Release of Factors of Production -- Income Effects of Agricultural Change and Development of a Market for Industrial Goods -- Conclusions -- 1 Obstacles to Progress -- 2 Agricultural Progress in Open-Field Oxfordshire -- 3 Agriculture and the Brewing and Distilling Industries in the Eighteenth Century -- 4 Enclosure and Labour Supply in the Industrial Revolution -- 5 The Cost of Parliamentary Enclosure in Warwickshire -- 6 Agriculture and Economic Growth in England, 1660-1750: Agricultural Change -- 7 Agricultural Productivity and Economic Growth in England 1700-1760 -- Select Bibliography.