Sugar, Steam and Steel: The Industrial Project in Colonial Java, 1830-1850

Sugar, Steam and Steel is about cane sugar and the transformation of an Indonesian island into the â Oriental Cubaâ during the middle decades of the nineteenth century. Between the 1830s and the 1880s, sweetener manufacture in Dutch-controlled Java â the crown jewel of the erstwhile Netherla...

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Main Author: Roger Knight, G. (auth)
Format: Book Chapter
Published: University of Adelaide Press 2014
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