Sugarlandia Revisited by Ulbe Bosma

Sugarlandia Revisited by Ulbe Bosma

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Zusammenfassung

Sugar was the single most valuable bulk commodity traded internationally before oil became the world's prime resource. 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.

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Sugarlandia Revisited by Ulbe Bosma

Sugar was the single most valuable bulk commodity traded internationally before oil became the world's prime resource. 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.

“The book is an invaluable contribution to the study of the political economies of these regions and offers fresh perspectives on metropolis-colony interactionsIt challenges the Euro/US-centric historiography…[it] introduces the reader to a variety of archival sources.”  ·  The Newsletter of the International Institute for Asian Studies

Ulbe Bosma is Senior Research Fellow at the International Institute of Social History. He is published on colonial Indonesia in Dutch, English and Portuguese and is co-author of a general history on the Dutch creole societies in Asia (forthcoming).

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ISBN 13 9781845453169
ISBN 10 1845453166
Titel Sugarlandia Revisited
Autor Ulbe Bosma
Serie International Studies In Social History
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Bindungsart Hardback
Verlag Berghahn Books
Erscheinungsjahr 2007-10-01
Seitenanzahl 240
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