Sugar, steam and steel the industrial project in colonial Java, 1830-1885 Knight, G. R. creator author. JSTOR (Organization) text bibliography History. Electronic books. at 2014 monographic eng remote 1 online resource (xi, 242 pages) : illustrations (some colour) "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 and sugar science from other Asian centres of production which had once equaled or, more often, surpassed it in terms of both output and know-how. Along with its larger and altogether more famous Caribbean counterpart, Java's industry came to occupy a position at the apex of the trade in what had become by this date a key global commodity. Along with the beet sugar producers of (post-1870) Imperial Germany, Cuba and Java accounted for a little over one-third of the world's recorded output of the industrially manufactured kind of sugar usually referred to as 'centrifugal'. While Cuba held the position of the world's largest supplier of cane sugar to international commodity markets, 'Dutch' Java emerged from almost nowhere to take second place. The island had begun the nineteenth century as one of a number of centres - in fact, a rather minor one - of pre-industrial sugar production located in tropical and sub-tropical Asia from the Indian sub-continent through to the southernmost islands of Japan. It ended the century not only as by far the largest of Asia's producer-exporters of sugar but also - critically - as the sole example of the sustained and successful large-scale industrialisation of sugar manufacture anywhere in 'the East'. Sugar, Steam and Steel sets out to explain how and why this happened - and what its implications were for the long-term trajectory of the Java sugar industry in the international sugar economy."--Cover description. by G. Roger Knight. Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-242). a-io--- Sugar Manufacture and refining Indonesia Java History Sugar trade Indonesia Java History Java (Indonesia) History 19th century Netherlands Colonies Commerce Asia History World History History World General & World History Colonies and colonization. Emigration and immigration. International migration History of Asia Commerce Netherlandish colonies Sugar Manufacture and refining Sugar trade Asia Indonesia Java HISTORY / Asia / Southeast Asia 1800-1899 fast TP379.J4 K65 2014 959.8022 Sugar, steam and steel Knight, G.R., (DLC) 2015375245 (OCoLC)910270938 1922064998 9781922064998 9781925261004 192526100X 9781922064981 192206498X 01492932 22573/ctt1sxfr77 JSTOR http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login?url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.20851/j.ctt1sq5x7k VT2 141015 20260728172445.9 in00003893079 eng