Sugar, Steam and Steel: The Industrial Project in Colonial Java, 1830-1850

Sugar, Steam and Steel is about cane sugar and the transformation of an Indonesian island into the â Oriental Cubaâ during the middle decades of the nineteenth century. Between the 1830s and the 1880s, sweetener manufacture in Dutch-controlled Java â the crown jewel of the erstwhile Netherlands...

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Auteur principal: Roger Knight, G. (auth)
Format: Électronique Chapitre de livre
Langue:anglais
Publié: University of Adelaide Press 2014
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Résumé:Sugar, Steam and Steel is about cane sugar and the transformation of an Indonesian island into the â Oriental Cubaâ during the middle decades of the nineteenth century. Between the 1830s and the 1880s, sweetener manufacture in Dutch-controlled Java â the crown jewel of the erstwhile Netherlands Indies â drew decisively away in matters of technology and sugar science from other Asian centres of production which had once equaled or, more often, surpassed it in terms of both output and know-how. Along with its larger and altogether more famous Caribbean counterpart, Javaâ s industry came to occupy a position at the apex of the trade in what had become by this date a key global commodity.
Description matérielle:1 electronic resource (322 p.)
ISBN:steam-and-steel
9781922064998
Accès:Open Access