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Barons, brokers, and buyers : the institutions and cultures of Philippine sugar / Michael S. Billig.
LIBRA HD9116.P61 B46 2003
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Billig, Michael S., 1956-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sugar trade--Philippines.
- Sugar trade.
- Philippines.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 320 pages : map ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2003]
- Summary:
- This innovative ethnography takes a new approach to the study of Philippine sugar.
- Contents:
- Legacy of colonialism and neo-colonialism
- Production, financing, CARP, and the U.S. quota
- Property rights, Quedans, and the SRA
- Great importation war
- Rationalization, groupism, and the Chinese
- Conclusion : the institutions and cultures of Philippine sugar.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-304) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0824825616
- OCLC:
- 49558894
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