Sugar, steam and steel : the industrial project in colonial Java, 1830-1885 / by G Roger Knight.
Sugar, steam and steel : the industrial project in colonial Java, 1830-1885 / by G Roger Knight.
Sugar, steam and steel : the industrial project in colonial Java, 1830-1885 / by G Roger Knight.
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Publisher
[Adelaide], South Australia University of Adelaide Press, [2014]
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H 2015/2279
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Language
English
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Physical content
xi, 242 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits (some in colour) ; 25 cm.
Content type
still image
cartographic image
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
Introduction. Java sugar, an industrial project and the "Oriental Cuba", 1830-85 -- Part I. The "industrial revolution" in sugar manufacture -- 1. Java's singular trajectory : steam, steel and the industrial project in sugar -- 2. A Creole Prometheus : steam, paddle boats and sugar factories -- 3. T...
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Publisher
[Adelaide], South Australia University of Adelaide Press, [2014]
Place of Publication
South Australia
Date Published
[2014]
Subjects
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- Australian
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Summary
"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 - the crown jewel of the erstwhile Netherlands Indies - drew decisively away in matters of technology...
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Sugar, steam and steel : the industrial project in colonial Java, 1830-1885 / by G Roger Knight.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-242)
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Also available online. Address as at 2/06/2015 :http://www.adelaide.edu.au/press/titles/steam-and-steel/steam-and-steel-ebook.pdf.
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H 2015/2279
Record Identifier
74VK7gbG85Kb
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VK7gbG85Kb
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ISBN
9781922064981
DDC
959.8022
MMS ID
991022870959702626
