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Title White and deadly : sugar and colonialism / Pal Ahluwalia, Bill Ashcroft, and Roger Knight, editors
Published Commack, N.Y. : Nova Science Publishers, 1999

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Description ix, 194 pages ; 24 cm
Series Horizons in post-colonial studies
Horizons in post-colonial studies.
Contents Horizons in Post-Colonial Studies / Pal Ahluwalia and Bill Ashcroft -- Ch. 1. Introduction -- Ch. 2. Sugar and the Shaping of Western Culture / James Walvin -- Ch. 3. A Fatal Sweetness: Sugar and Post-Colonial Cultures / Bill Ashcroft -- Ch. 4. Discourses of Discovery: Transculturation and Sugar Plantations in Africa / Pal Ahluwalia -- Ch. 5. The Language of Colonial Power: the Sugar Industry's 'Coolies' in Colonial Java / G. Roger Knight -- Ch. 6. Spectres of sugar / Kate Flint -- Ch. 7. The Other Leviathans: Corporate Investment and the Construction of a Sugar Colony / John D. Kelly -- Ch. 8. Alien Agriculturalists: Non-European Small Farmers in the Australian Sugar Industry, 1880-1920 / Peter Griggs -- Ch. 9. Science versus Nature: The Cane - Beet Sugar Rivalry / John Perkins and Roger Munting
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Sugar trade -- Political aspects -- History.
Sugarcane industry -- Political aspects -- History.
Sugar workers -- History.
Imperialism -- History.
SUBJECT Europe http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045631 -- Colonies -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002012516
Author Knight, Roger.
Ashcroft, Bill, 1946-
Ahluwalia, D. P. S. (D. Pal S.)
LC no. 99042760
ISBN 1560727101