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G. Roger Knight
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.
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G Roger Knight
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.
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G Roger Knight (Royalty Account)
Discusses the complexities of a trading network in this period, outling commodity chains, links between colonies and colonial centres, and tensions between local polities and competing empires.
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Sugar was the single most valuable bulk commodity traded internationally before oil became the world’s prime resource. This book questions some major assumptions about the nexus between sugar production and…
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…
John Hattendorf,Roger Knight,Alan Pearsall,Nicholas Rodger,Geoffrey Till
This is a Navy Records Society book.
