Sugar, Steam and Steel: The Industrial Project in Colonial Java, 1830-1885

by 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. Between the 1830s and the 1880s, sweetener manufacture in Dutch-controlled Java drew decisively away in matters of technology and sugar science from other Asian centres of production which had once equalled or, more often, surpassed it in terms of both output and know-how. With Cuba,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 192206498X
• ISBN13: 9781922064981
• Release Date: February 2018
• Publisher: University of Adelaide Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.0" x 10.0"