Sugarlandia Revisited
Subtitle: Sugar and Colonialism in Asia and the Americas, 1800 to 1940 (International Studies in Social History)
Contributors: Ulbe Bosma (Editor); Juan Giusti-Cordero (Editor); G. Roger Knight (Editor)
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: October 30, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 233
ISBN-13: 9781845453169
Subjects: Agriculture & related industries; Colonization & independence; History of specific subjects; First World War, 1914-1918; Inter-war period, 1918-1939; c 1800 to c 1900; c 1900 - c 1914; History; History: World; ASIA; The Americas; Historical Geography; Indonesia; Java; Southeast Asia; Sugar trade; West Indies
Description: "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."--BOOK JACKET.