Sugarlandia Revisited by Ulbe Bosma

Sugarlandia Revisited by Ulbe Bosma

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 the Americas were transformed by a fusion of new and old forces of production, as the international sugar economy incorporated production areas in Asia, the Pacific, and Africa. Sugar's global economic importance and its intimate relationship with colonialism offer an important context for probing the nature of colonial societies. 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). Juan A. Giusti-Cordero is Professor of History at the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras. He has written extensively on Puerto Rican and Caribbean social history and is author of Land, Community, and Resistance in Pinones (Loiza), 18th-19th Centuries (forthcoming). G. Roger Knight teaches history at the University of Adelaide. He is widely published in the field of the social and economic history of colonial Java; his book Steam, Steel and Cane: A Global History of the Java Sugar Industry 1830-1960 is forthcoming.

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ISBN 13	9781845457846
ISBN 10	1845457846
Titel	Sugarlandia Revisited
Autor	Ulbe Bosma
Serie	International Studies In Social History
Buchzustand	Nicht verfügbar
Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Berghahn Books
Erscheinungsjahr	2010-07-01
Seitenanzahl	240
Hinweis auf dem Einband	Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden.