Commodities and colonialism : the story of big sugar in Indonesia, 1880-1942 /
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| Author / Creator: | Knight, G. R. |
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| Imprint: | Leiden, The Netherlands ; Boston, Massachusetts : Brill, 2013. |
| Description: | xi, 291 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9124443 |
| Summary: | Sugar yesterday was what oil is today: a commodity of immense global importance whose tentacles reached deep into politics, society and economy. Indonesia's colonial-era sugar industry is largely forgotten today, except by a small number of regional specialists writing for a specialist audience. During the period 1880-1942 covered by this book, however, the then Netherlands Indies was one of the world's very greatest producer-exporters of the commodity. How it contrived to do so is the story presented in this book.<br>Author G. Roger Knight, associate professor of history in the University of Adelaide, has researched the history<br>of Indonesia's sugar industry for more than twenty-five years, using unpublished archival sources in both the Netherlands and Indonesia. His search has taken him into government records, family histories and - above all - the<br>extensive surviving papers of the Dutch sugar companies who operated in Indonesia during the late colonial era. The result is a picture of the industry that offers important new insights into its history and its place in the framework of global commodity production over a period extending over three quarters of a century. |
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| Physical Description: | xi, 291 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [251]-284) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9004250514 9789004250512 9789004251090 900425109X |
