Frontmatter

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. 1. Introduction 1
4. 2. Sugarlandia Revisited: Sugar and Colonialism in Asia and the Americas, 1800 to 1940, An Introduction 5
5. 3. Technology, Technicians and Bourgeoisie: Thomas Jeoffries Edwards and the Industrial Project in Sugar in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Java 31
6. 4. An Anatomy of Sugarlandia: Local Dutch Communities and the Colonial Sugar Industry in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Java 53
7. 5. Sugar and Dynasty in Yogyakarta 73
8. 6. Hybridity, Colonial Capitalism and Indigenous Resistance: The Case of the Paku Alam in Central Java 95
9. 7. ‘A Teaspoon of Sugar ...’: Assessing the Sugar Content in Colonial Discourse in the Dutch East Indies, 1880 to 1914 113
10. 8. Sugar, Slavery and Bourgeoisie: The Emergence of the Cuban Sugar Industry 145
11. 9. The Spanish Immigrants in Cuba and Puerto Rico: Their Role in the Process of National Formation in the Twentieth Century (1898 to 1930) 159
12. 10. Compradors or Compadres? ‘Sugar Barons’ in Negros (The Philippines) and Puerto Rico under American Rule 177
13. Notes on Contributors 203
14. Bibliography 205
15. Index 227