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Commodities and colonialism : the story of big sugar in Indonesia, 1880-1942
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- Creator
- by G. Roger Knight
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Leiden, The Netherlands ; Boston, Massachusetts : Brill, 2013
- Physical Details
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- xi, 291 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9789004250512, 9789004251090, 900425109X, 9004250514
- OCLC
- ocn830161955, ocn828140586
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [251]-284) and index.
- Introduction : Java sugar and the age of mass production -- A new epoch : the asian connection -- A precocious appetite : fertilizer, horticulture and agro-industry in the field -- Bureaucracy versus plantocracy : the colonial state and 'Big sugar' -- No business like sugar business : from profit to investment -- Enmeshed in Lilliput : constraints on growth -- No escape : the HVA and the Djatiroto project -- Maring the best of it : the twenties and the apogee of big sugar -- Commercial 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 : productions costs at the Modjo Agoeng sugar factory, Surabaya residency, East Java, 1905-1940 -- Bibliography -- Index