J. H. Galloway

The Sugar Cane Industry

An Historical Geography from Its Origins to 1914
Herausgeber: Baker, Alan R. H.; Dennis, Richard

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Produktbeschreibung

This book is a geography of the sugar cane industry from its origins to 1914. It describes its spread from India into the Mediterranean during medieval times, to the Americas and its subsequent diffusion to most parts of the tropics. It examines the changes in agricultural and manufacturing techniques over the centuries, and its impact in forming the multicultural societies of the tropical world.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Studies in Historical Geography
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. September 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 442g
• ISBN-13: 9780521022194
• ISBN-10: 0521022193
• Artikelnr.: 22161869

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations
Acknowledgments
A note on statistics
Introduction: the taste for sweetness
1. Sugar cane and the manufacture of sugar
2. The Eastern origins
Part I. The Sugar Industry in the West: 3. The Mediterranean sugar industry: c. 700-1600
4. The Atlantic sugar industry: c. 1450-1680
5. The American sugar industry in the eighteenth century
6. The innovations of a long nineteenth century: 1790-1914
7. The geographical responses to the forces of change: 1790-1914
Part II. The Sugar Industry in the East: 8. Asia: c. 1750-1914
9. The Indian Ocean and Pacific colonies: 1800-1914
Conclusion
Appendix
List of references
Index.