| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 291 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Verhandelingen Van Het Koninklijk Instituut Voor Taal- en land- en Volkenkunde ; 286 |
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Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde ; 286.
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| Contents |
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 |
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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 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Sugar trade -- Indonesia
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Sugar -- Indonesia
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Food Science.
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Sugar
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Sugar trade
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Suikerrietplantages.
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Indonesia
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Indonesië.
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2013931781 |
| ISBN |
9789004251090 |
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900425109X |
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9004250514 |
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9789004250512 |
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