LEADER 03572nam 22005052 450 001 9910132269403321 005 20221206102512.0 035 $a(CKB)3710000000347200 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001452437 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11834545 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001452437 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11487380 035 $a(PQKB)10594916 035 $a(EXLCZ)9781922064998 035 $a(OCoLC)908281606 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9781922064998 035 $a(WaSeSS)IndRDA00058538 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000347200 100 $a20150508d2014|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aSugar, steam and steel $ethe industrial project in colonial Java, 1830-1885 /$fby G. Roger Knight$b[electronic resource] 210 1$aAdelaide :$cThe University of Adelaide Press,$d2014. 215 $a1 online resource (xi, 242 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 30 Oct 2017). 311 08$aPrint version: 9781922064981 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 330 $a"Sugar, Steam and Steel is about cane sugar and the transformation of an Indonesian island into the 'Oriental Cuba' during the middle decades of the nineteenth century. Between the 1830s and the 1880s, sweetener manufacture in Dutch-controlled Java - the crown jewel of the erstwhile Netherlands Indies - drew decisively away in matters of technology and sugar science from other Asian centres of production which had once equaled or, more often, surpassed it in terms of both output and know-how. Along with its larger and altogether more famous Caribbean counterpart, Java's industry came to occupy a position at the apex of the trade in what had become by this date a key global commodity. Along with the beet sugar producers of (post-1870) Imperial Germany, Cuba and Java accounted for a little over one-third of the world's recorded output of the industrially manufactured kind of sugar usually referred to as 'centrifugal'. While Cuba held the position of the world's largest supplier of cane sugar to international commodity markets, 'Dutch' Java emerged from almost nowhere to take second place. The island had begun the nineteenth century as one of a number of centres - in fact, a rather minor one - of pre-industrial sugar production located in tropical and sub-tropical Asia from the Indian sub-continent through to the southernmost islands of Japan. It ended the century not only as by far the largest of Asia's producer-exporters of sugar but also - critically - as the sole example of the sustained and successful large-scale industrialisation of sugar manufacture anywhere in 'the East'. Sugar, Steam and Steel sets out to explain how and why this happened - and what its implications were for the long-term trajectory of the Java sugar industry in the international sugar economy."--Cover description. 606 $aSugar$xManufacture and refining$zIndonesia$zJava$xHistory 606 $aSugar trade$zIndonesia$zJava$xHistory 607 $aJava (Indonesia)$xHistory$y19th century 607 $aNetherlands$xColonies$xCommerce$zAsia$xHistory 615 0$aSugar$xManufacture and refining$xHistory. 615 0$aSugar trade$xHistory. 676 $a959.8022 700 $aKnight$b G. R.$0964215 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910132269403321 996 $aSugar, steam and steel$92186743 997 $aUNINA