Sugarlandia Revisited

Sugar and Colonialism in Asia and the Americas, 1800-1940

AvUlbe Bosma,Juan A. Giusti-Cordero

Inbunden, Engelska, 2007

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2007-10-01
Mått:152 x 229 x 18 mm
Vikt:463 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:International Studies in Social History
Antal sidor:240
Förlag:Berghahn Books
ISBN:9781845453169

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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).

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“The book is an invaluable contribution to the study of the political economies of these regions and offers fresh perspectives on metropolis-colony interactions. It challenges the Euro/US-centric historiography…[it] introduces the reader to a variety of archival sources.” · The Newsletter of the International Institute for Asian Studies

Innehållsförteckning

Chapter 1. IntroductionSidney W. MintzChapter 2. Sugarlandia Revisited: Sugar and Colonialism in Asia and the Americas, 1800 to 1940, An IntroductionUlbe Bosma, Juan Giusti-Cordero and G. Roger KnightChapter 3. Technology, Technicians and Bourgeoisie: Thomas Jeoffries Edwards and the Industrial Project in Sugar in Mid-Nineteenth-Century JavaG. Roger KnightChapter 4. An Anatomy of Sugarlandia: Local Dutch Communities and the Colonial Sugar Industry in Mid-Nineteenth-Century JavaArthur van Schaik and G. Roger KnightChapter 5. Sugar and Dynasty inYogyakarta Ulbe BosmaChapter 6. Hybridity, Colonial Capitalism and Indigenous Resistance: The Case of the Paku Alam in Central JavaSri MarganaChapter 7. ‘A Teaspoon of Sugar ...’: Assessing the Sugar Content in Colonial Discourse in the Dutch East Indies, 1880 to 1914Joost CotéChapter 8. Sugar, Slavery and Bourgeoisie: The Emergence of the Cuban Sugar IndustryManuel BarciaChapter 9. The Spanish Immigrants in Cuba and Puerto Rico: Their Role in the Process of National Formation in the Twentieth Century (1898 to 1930)Jorge IbarraChapter 10. Compradors or Compadres? ‘Sugar Barons’ in Negros (The Philippines) and Puerto Rico under American RuleJuan Giusti-CorderoNotes on ContributorsBibliographyIndex