The history of sugar.

By: Publication details: London, Chapman and Hall, 1949-50.Description: 2 volumes (xiv, 636 pages) illustrations, portraits, maps 26 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: History of sugar.DDC classification:
  • 338.1736
LOC classification:
  • TP375.7 .D4
Other classification:
  • HT 07
Contents:
Vol. 1 The kindly fruits of the earth -- Honey -- The Sugar-cane -- China and the Far East -- India -- Greece and Rome -- Persia -- The Mediterranean sugar industry -- The Portuguese colonies -- The Spanish colonies -- The establishment of the sugar colonies -- The English colonies -- The Dutch colonies -- The French colonies -- The Danish colonies -- The United States -- The Hawaiian Islands -- Vol. 2 Sugar and slavery: Operation and extent -- Sugar and slavery: Acceptance, protest, abolition, suppression -- Sugar and slavery: Servile insurrections -- The Plantation and the planter -- The English colonies after Emancipation -- Early labour and free immigrant labour -- Indentured Asiatic labour in the sugar industry -- The Chinese coolie traffic and blackbirding -- The laws of trade and the trade in sugar -- Sugar duties in England -- Refining -- The beet and beet sugar -- The bounties -- The minor sources of sugar -- The prices and values of sugar -- Invention and research -- Complete Index to both volumes.
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Vol. 1 The kindly fruits of the earth -- Honey -- The Sugar-cane -- China and the Far East -- India -- Greece and Rome -- Persia -- The Mediterranean sugar industry -- The Portuguese colonies -- The Spanish colonies -- The establishment of the sugar colonies -- The English colonies -- The Dutch colonies -- The French colonies -- The Danish colonies -- The United States -- The Hawaiian Islands -- Vol. 2 Sugar and slavery: Operation and extent -- Sugar and slavery: Acceptance, protest, abolition, suppression -- Sugar and slavery: Servile insurrections -- The Plantation and the planter -- The English colonies after Emancipation -- Early labour and free immigrant labour -- Indentured Asiatic labour in the sugar industry -- The Chinese coolie traffic and blackbirding -- The laws of trade and the trade in sugar -- Sugar duties in England -- Refining -- The beet and beet sugar -- The bounties -- The minor sources of sugar -- The prices and values of sugar -- Invention and research -- Complete Index to both volumes.

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