Commodities and colonialism : the story of Big Sugar in Indonesia, 1880-1942 / G. Roger Knight.
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TextSeries: Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde ; 286.Publication details: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013.Description: 1 online resource (xi, 291 pages) : illustrationsContent type: - text
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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In Commodities and Colonial Production, G. Roger Knight provides an account of colonial Indonesia's world-class sugar industry from the 1880s through to the beginning of the Second World War.
Commodities and Colonialism; Contents; Abbreviations; Preface; Introduction; Java sugar and the age of mass production; Chapter 1; A new epoch; The Asian connection; Chapter 2; A precocious appetite; Fertilizer, horticulture and agro-industry in the field; Chapter 3; Bureaucracy versus plantocracy; The colonial state and 'Big Sugar'; Chapter 4; No business like sugar business; From profit to investment; Chapter 5; Enmeshed in Lilliput; Constraints on growth; Chapter 6; No escape; The HVA and the Djatiroto project; Chapter 7; Making the best of it; The twenties and the apogee of big sugar.
Chapter 8Commercial nemesis; Java, Japan and the Raj; Conclusion and postscript; The story of 'Big Sugar' in Indonesia; Appendix 1 Various data, circa 1880-1940; Appendix 2 Main export destinations Java sugar, circa 1880-1940; Appendix 3 Production costs at the Modjo Agoeng sugar factory, Surabaya Residency, East Java, 1905-1940; Bibliography; Index.
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