Commodities and Colonialism

The Story of Big Sugar in Indonesia, 1880-1942
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-90-04-25051-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 286, 292 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 1320 g

Reihe: Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde

Sugar yesterday was what oil is today: a commodity of immense global importance whose tentacles reached deep into politics, society and economy. Indonesia’s colonial-era sugar industry is largely forgotten today, except by a small number of regional specialists writing for a specialist audience. During the period 1880-1942 covered by this book, however, the then Netherlands Indies was one of the world’s very greatest producer-exporters of the commodity. How it contrived to do so is the story presented in this book.
Author G. Roger Knight, associate professor of history in the University of Adelaide, has researched the history of Indonesia’s sugar industry for more than twenty-five years, using unpublished archival sources in both the Netherlands and Indonesia. His search has taken him into government records, family histories and – above all – the extensive surviving papers of the Dutch sugar companies who operated in Indonesia during the late colonial era. The result is a picture of the industry that offers important new insights into ist history and ist place in the framework of global commodity production over a period extending over three quarters of a century.

Zielgruppe

All interested in the historical development of the international sugar economy during the colonial era - and of Indonesia's social and economic history in particular.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Knight, G Roger

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Australische und Pazifische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wirtschaftsgeschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Knight, G Roger
G. Roger Knight, Ph.D. (1968) University of London, is Associate Professor in the School of History and Politics, University of Adelaide. He is the author of several monographs and numerous articles on the social and economic history of colonial Indonesia.