Sugarlandia Revisited(English, Electronic book text, unknown)

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Sugarlandia Revisited(English, Electronic book text, unknown) is written by unknown and published by Berghahn Books. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0857452428 (ISBN 10) and 9780857452429 (ISBN 13).

Sugar was the single most valuable bulk commodity traded internationally before oil became the world's prime resource. From the sixteenth to the eighteenth century, cane sugar production was pre-eminent in the Atlantic Islands, the Caribbean, and Brazil. Subsequently, cane sugar industries in the Americas were transformed by a fusion of new and old forces of production, as the international sugar economy incorporated production areas in Asia, the Pacific, and Africa. Sugar's global economic importance and its intimate relationship with colonialism offer an important context for probing the nature of colonial societies. 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.