Sugar, steam and steel : the industrial project in colonial Java, 1830-1885 /

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

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Knight, G. R. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Adelaide, South Australia : University of Adelaide Press, [2014]
Colección:Open Access e-Books
Knowledge Unlatched
Temas:
1800 - 1899
Sugar > Manufacture and refining > Indonesia > Java > History.
Sugar trade > Indonesia > Java > History.
Sugar > Manufacture and refining > Indonesia > Java > History > 19th century.
Sucre > Fabrication et raffinage > Indonésie > Java > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Sucre > Fabrication et raffinage > Indonésie > Java > Histoire.
Sucre > Industrie > Indonésie > Java > Histoire.
HISTORY > Asia > Southeast Asia.
Commerce
Netherlandish colonies
Sugar > Manufacture and refining
Sugar trade
Java (Indonesia) > History > 19th century.
Netherlands > Colonies > Commerce > Asia > History.
Netherlands > Colonies > Commerce > Asia > History > 19th century.
Java (Indonésie) > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Pays-Bas > Colonies > Commerce > Asie > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Pays-Bas > Colonies > Commerce > Asie > Histoire.
Asia
Indonesia > Java
History.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction. Java sugar, an industrial project and the "Oriental Cuba", 1830-85
  • Part I. The "industrial revolution" in sugar manufacture
  • 1. Java's singular trajectory : steam, steel and the industrial project in sugar
  • 2. A Creole Prometheus : steam, paddle boats and sugar factories
  • 3. The industrial sugar factory : Wonopringgo, Thomas Edwards and the Nederlandsche Handel-Maatschappij (NHM)
  • Part II. The "peasant" economy, the money trail and the bourgeoisie
  • 4. Sugar without slaves : the agrarian bases for the industrial project
  • 5. The money trail : state, suikerlords and bourgeoisie
  • Part III. Metamorphosis
  • 6. Metamorphosis : machinery, science and the manufacture of sugar in Java on the eve of the crisis of the mid-1880s
  • Conclusion. The future of an industrial project : the 1880s and beyond.

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