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Sugarlandia revisited : sugar and colonialism in Asia and the Americas, 1800-1940 /

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 t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Bosma, Ulbe, 1962- (Editor ), Giusti-Cordero, Juan A. (Editor ), Knight, G. R. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Berghahn Books, 2007.
Colección:International studies in social history ; v. 9.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Sugarlandia revisited : sugar and colonialism in Asia and the Americas, 1800 to 1940, an introduction / Ulbe Bosma, Juan Giusti-Cordero and G. Roger Knight
  • Technology, technicians and bourgeoisie : Thomas Jeoffries Edwards and the industrial project in sugar in mid-nineteenth-century Java / G. Roger Knight
  • An anatomy of Sugarlandia : local Dutch communities and the colonial sugar industry in mid-nineteenth-century Java / Arthur van Schaik and G. Roger Knight
  • Sugar and dynasty in Yogyakarta / Ulbe Bosma
  • Hybridity, colonial capitalism and indigenous resistance : the case of the Paku Alam in central Java / Sri Margana
  • 'A teaspoon of sugar' : assessing the sugar content in colonial discourse in the Dutch East Indies, 1880 to 1914 / Joost Coté
  • Sugar, slavery and bourgeoisie : the emergence of the Cuban sugar industry / Manuel Barcia
  • The Spanish immigrants in Cuba and Puerto Rico : their role in the process of national formation in the twentieth century (1898 to 1930) / Jorge Ibarra
  • Compradors or compadres? : 'sugar barons' in Negros (The Philippines) and Puerto Rico under American Rule / Juan Giusti-Cordero.