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The sugar plantation in India and Indonesia : industrial production, 1770-2010 /
"European markets almost exclusively relied on Caribbean sugar produced by slave labor until abolitionist campaigns began around 1800. Thereafter, importing Asian sugar and transferring plantation production to Asia became a serious option for the Western world. In this book, Ulbe Bosma details...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2013.
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| Colección: | Studies in comparative world history.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "European markets almost exclusively relied on Caribbean sugar produced by slave labor until abolitionist campaigns began around 1800. Thereafter, importing Asian sugar and transferring plantation production to Asia became a serious option for the Western world. In this book, Ulbe Bosma details how the British and Dutch introduced the sugar plantation model in Asia and refashioned it over time. Although initial attempts by British planters in India failed, the Dutch colonial administration was far more successful in Java, where it introduced in 1830 a system of forced cultivation that tied local peasant production to industrial manufacturing. A century later, India adopted the Java model in combination with farmers' cooperatives rather than employing coercive measures. Cooperatives did not prevent industrial sugar production from exploiting small farmers and cane cutters, however, and Bosma finds that much of modern sugar production in Asia resembles the abuses of labor by the old plantation systems of the Caribbean"-- |
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| Notas: | Title from publishers bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Oct 2013). |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xii, 323 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781107417250 1107417252 9781139626323 1139626329 1139893009 9781139893008 1107425093 9781107425095 1107422930 9781107422933 1316621162 9781316621165 1107419875 9781107419872 1107418526 9781107418523 |