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European markets almost exclusively relied on Caribbean sugar produced by slave labor until abolitionist campaigns began around 1800. Thereafter, importing Asian sugar and transferring plantation production to Asia became a serious option for the Western world. In this book, Ulbe Bosma details how the British and Dutch introduced the sugar plantation model in Asia and refashioned it over time. Although initial attempts by British planters in India failed, the Dutch colonial administration was far more successful in Java, where it introduced in 1830 a system of forced cultivation that tied local peasant production to industrial manufacturing. A century later, India adopted the Java model in combination with farmers' cooperatives rather than employing coercive measures. Cooperatives did not prevent industrial sugar production from exploiting small farmers and cane cutters, however, and Bosma finds that much of modern sugar production in Asia resembles the abuses of labor by the old plantation systems of the Caribbean.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- The Sugar Plantation in India and Indonesia
- Series
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Figures and Tables
- Illustrations and Maps
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Producing Sugar for the World
- 2 East Indian Sugar versus Slave Sugar
- 3 Java: From Cultivation System to Plantation Conglomerate
- 4 Sugar, Science, and Technology: Java and India in the Late Nineteenth Century
- 5 The Era of the Global Sugar Market, 1890–1929
- 6 Escaping the Plantation?
- Conclusion
- Appendix I Notes on Labor Input in Sugar Production in India between 1850 and 1930
- Appendix II Notes on the Costs of Producing and Shipping Sugar to European Markets
- Weights and Measures
- Glossary
- Abbreviations
- Archives
- Bibliography
- Index
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