Sugarlandia revisited : sugar and colonialism in Asia and the Americas, 1800-1940 / edited by Ulbe Bosma, Juan Giusti-Cordero, and G. Roger Knight.

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Series: International studies in social history ; v. 9 | International studies in social history ; v. 9.Publication details: New York : Berghahn Books, 2007.Description: 233 pages ; 24 cmContent type:

text

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unmediated

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volume

ISBN:

9781845453169
1845453166
9781845457846
1845457846

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Additional physical formats: Sugarlandia revisited.DDC classification:

382/.4136 22

LOC classification:

HD9116.I53 J356 2007

Other classification:

15.85
15.75
q 488
q 541
q 564
NW 6165
NW 2645
QR 528

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Contents:

Sugarlandia revisited : sugar and colonialism in Asia and the Americas, 1800 to 1940, an introduction / Ulbe Bosma, Juan Giusti-Cordero and G. Roger Knight -- Technology, technicians and bourgeoisie : Thomas Jeoffries Edwards and the industrial project in sugar in mid-nineteenth-century Java / G. Roger Knight -- An anatomy of Sugarlandia : local Dutch communities and the colonial sugar industry in mid-nineteenth-century Java / Arthur van Schaik and G. Roger Knight -- Sugar and dynasty in Yogyakarta / Ulbe Bosma -- Hybridity, colonial capitalism and indigenous resistance : the case of the Paku Alam in central Java / Sri Margana -- 'A teaspoon of sugar' : assessing the sugar content in colonial discourse in the Dutch East Indies, 1880 to 1914 / Joost Cot e -- Sugar, slavery and bourgeoisie : the emergence of the Cuban sugar industry / Manuel Barcia -- The Spanish immigrants in Cuba and Puerto Rico : their role in the process of national formation in the twentieth century (1898 to 1930) / Jorge Ibarra -- Compradors or compadres? : 'sugar barons' in Negros (The Philippines) and Puerto Rico under American Rule / Juan Giusti-Cordero.

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 preeminent in the Atlantic Islands, the Caribbean and Brazil. Subsequent 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 nature of colonial societies. This book questions some major assumptions about the nexus between sugar production and colonial societies in the Caribbean and Southeast Asia, especially in the second (post-1800) colonial era."--Jacket.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

"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 preeminent in the Atlantic Islands, the Caribbean and Brazil. Subsequent 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 nature of colonial societies. This book questions some major assumptions about the nexus between sugar production and colonial societies in the Caribbean and Southeast Asia, especially in the second (post-1800) colonial era."--Jacket.

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