Sugarlandia Revisited: Sugar and Colonialism in Asia and the Americas, 1800 to 1940: Sugar and Colonialism in Asia and the Americas, 1800-1940 - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 1845453166 ISBN 13: 9781845453169

Casa editrice: Berghahn Books, 2007

Riassunto

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 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.

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L'autore:

Ulbe Bosma is Senior Research Fellow at the International Institute of Social History. He is published on colonial Indonesia in Dutch, English and Portuguese and is co-author of a general history on the Dutch creole societies in Asia (forthcoming).

Juan A. Giusti-Cordero is Professor of History at the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras. He has written extensively on Puerto Rican and Caribbean social history and is author of Land, Community, and Resistance in Piñones (Loíza), 18th-19th Centuries (forthcoming).

G. Roger Knight teaches history at the University of Adelaide. He is widely published in the field of the social and economic history of colonial Java; his book Steam, Steel and Cane: A Global History of the Java Sugar Industry 1830-1960 is forthcoming.

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Book by Ulbe Bosma

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• Editore: Berghahn Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1845453166
• ISBN 13: 9781845453169
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 233
• Redattore: Bosma Ulbe, Giusti-Cordero Juan, Knight G. Roger