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Sugar, Steam and Steel: The Industrial Project in Colonial Java, 1830-1885

Sugar, Steam and Steel: The Industrial Project in Colonial Java, 1830-1885

Knight, G. Roger

Paperback

General World History

Publisher Price: $33.00

ISBN10: 192206498X
ISBN13: 9781922064981
Publisher: University of Adelaide Press
Published: Sep 30 2014
Pages: 256
Weight: 1.33
Height: 0.70 Width: 7.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English

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 drew decisively away in matters of technology and sugar science from other Asian centres of production which had once equalled or, more often, surpassed it in terms of both output and know-how. With Cuba, Java's industry came to occupy a position at the apex of the trade of this key global commodity. Along with the beet sugar producers of (post-1870) Imperial Germany, Cuba and Java accounted for a little over one-third of the world's recorded output of the industrially manufactured kind of sugar usually referred to as 'centrifugal'.

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