Ulbe (Hrsg.) Bosma

Sugarlandia Revisited

Sugar and Colonialism in Asia and the Americas, 1800-1940

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Sugar was the single most valuable bulk commodity traded internationally before oil became the world's prime resource. From the sixteenth to the eighteenth century, cane sugar production was pre-eminent in the Atlantic Islands, the Caribbean, and Brazil. Subsequently, cane sugar industries in the Americas were transformed by a fusion of new and old forces of production, as the international sugar economy incorporated production areas in Asia, the Pacific, and Africa. Sugar's global economic importance and its intimate relationship with colonialism offer an important context for probing the nature of colonial societies. This book questions som… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Giusti-Cordero, Juan A. (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-1-84545-784-6
EAN: 9781845457846
Produktnummer: 7477163
Verlag: Berghahn Books
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
Seitenangabe: 240 S.
Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D1.3 cm 354 g
Abbildungen: Paperback
Gewicht: 354

Über den Autor

Juan A. Giusti-Cordero is Professor of History at the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras. He has written extensively on Puerto Rican and Caribbean social history and is author of Land, Community, and Resistance in Piñones (Loíza), 18th-19th Centuries (forthcoming).