Sugarlandia Revisited: Sugar and Colonialism in Asia and the Americas, 1800-1940 (International Studies in Social History Volume 9)

by UlbeBosma (Editor), G . Roger Knight (Editor), JuanA.Guisti-Cordero (Editor)

• New

  Hardcover
  2007

  $147.35

  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 colonial societies in the Caribbean and Southeast Asia, especially in the second (post-1800) colonial era.