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Sugar, Steam and Steel
"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 w...
Journal of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers
Includes preprints of: Transactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, ISSN 0096-3860
A Merseyside Town in the Industrial Revolution
First published in 1994. This book is an outstanding product of St Helens, as remarkable in its way as sheetglass and Beechams pills. It is the first full scale nineteenth century history of a small industrial town as distinct from the bigger and better-known cities and as such it deserves to be very widely read and studied.
Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series
Includes Part 1A: Books and Part 1B: Pamphlets, Serials and Contributions to Periodicals
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