Sugar Cane Industry An Historical Geography from Its Origins to 1914

Name: Sugar Cane Industry An Historical Geography from Its Origins to 1914
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ISBN: 9780521022194

ISBN-10: 0521022193

ISBN-13: 9780521022194

Edition: 2005

Authors: J. H. Galloway, Alan R. H. Baker, Richard Dennis, Deryck Holdworth

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Sugar cane has long been one of the world's most important cash crops, and the sugar cane industry can be regarded as one of the world's oldest industries. The industry involves three basic processes: the cultivation of cane, the milling of the cane to extract the juice and the rendering of the juice into crystal sugar. This book is a geography of the sugar cane industry from its origins to 1914. It describes the spread of the industry from India into the Mediterranean during medieval times, across to the Americas in the early years of European colonization, and its subsequent diffusion to most parts of the tropics. It examines changes in agricultural techniques over the centuries, the…

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List price: $42.99
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 11/10/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 284
Size: 5.55" wide x 8.50" long x 1.26" tall
Weight: 1.276
Language: English



List of illustrations


Acknowledgments


A note on statistics


Introduction: the taste for sweetness



Sugar cane and the manufacture of sugar



The Eastern origins



The Sugar Industry in the West



The Mediterranean sugar industry: c. 700-1600



The Atlantic sugar industry: c. 1450-1680



The American sugar industry in the eighteenth century



The innovations of a long nineteenth century: 1790-1914



The geographical responses to the forces of change: 1790-1914



The Sugar Industry in the East



Asia: c. 1750-1914



The Indian Ocean and Pacific colonies: 1800-1914


Conclusion


Appendix


List of references


Index