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Sugarlandia revisited : sugar and colonialism in Asia and the Americas, 1800-1940 / edited by Ulbe Bosma, Juan Giusti-Cordero, and G. Roger Knight.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- International Studies in Social History
- International Institute of Social History ; Volume 9
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sugar trade--Indonesia--Java--History.
- Sugar trade.
- Sugar trade--Southeast Asia--History.
- Sugar trade--West Indies--History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (239 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, 2007.
- Summary:
- Sugar was the single most valuable bulk commodity traded internationally before oil became the world's prime resource. From the sixteenth to the eighteenth century, cane sugar production was pre-eminent in the Atlantic Islands, the Caribbean, and Brazil. Subsequently, cane sugar industries in the Americas were transformed by a fusion of new and old forces of production, as the international sugar economy incorporated production areas in Asia, the Pacific, and Africa. Sugar's global economic importance and its intimate relationship with colonialism offer an important context for probing the na
- Contents:
- Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table Of Contents; Introduction; Chapter 2. Sugarlandia Revisited; Chapter 3. Technology, Technicians and Bourgeoisie; Chapter 4. An Anatomy of Sugarlandia; Chapter 5. Sugar and Dynasty in Yogyakarta; Chapter 6. Hybridity, Colonial Capitalism and Indigenous Resistance; Chapter 7. 'A Teaspoon of Sugar...'; Chapter 8. Sugar, Slavery and Bourgeoisie; Chapter 9. The Spanish Immigrant in Cuba and Puerto Rico; Chapter 10. Compradors or Compadres? 'Sugar Barons' In Negroes (The Philippines) and Puerto Rico Under American Rule; Notes On Contributors
- BibliographyIndex
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780857452429
- 0857452428
- OCLC:
- 873806191
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