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Author Bosma, Ulbe, 1962-

Title The sugar plantation in India and Indonesia : industrial production, 1770-2010 / Ulbe Bosma, International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam.

Publication Info. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.

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Description 1 online resource (337 pages) : illustrations, maps.
text rdacontent
computer rdamedia
online resource rdacarrier
Series Studies in comparative world history
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary "European markets almost exclusively relied on Caribbean sugar produced by slave labor until abolitionist campaigns began around 1800. Thereafter, importing Asian sugar and transferring plantation production to Asia became a serious option for the Western world. In this book, Ulbe Bosma details how the British and Dutch introduced the sugar plantation model in Asia and refashioned it over time. Although initial attempts by British planters in India failed, the Dutch colonial administration was far more successful in Java, where it introduced in 1830 a system of forced cultivation that tied local peasant production to industrial manufacturing. A century later, India adopted the Java model in combination with farmers' cooperatives rather than employing coercive measures. Cooperatives did not prevent industrial sugar production from exploiting small farmers and cane cutters, however, and Bosma finds that much of modern sugar production in Asia resembles the abuses of labor by the old plantation systems of the Caribbean"-- Provided by publisher.
Note Description based on print version record.
Subject Sugar plantations -- India -- History.
Sugar plantations -- Indonesia -- Java -- History.
Sugar trade -- India -- History.
Sugar trade -- Indonesia -- Java -- History.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Bosma, Ulbe. Sugar plantation in India and Indonesia : industrial production, 1770-2010. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013 xii, 323 pages Studies in comparative world history 9781107039698 (DLC) 2013008595
ISBN 9781107039698 (hardback)
9781107421080 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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