A Precocious Appetite: Industrial Agriculture and the Fertiliser Revolution in Javaʼs Colonial Cane Fields, c. 1880–1914 Research for this paper was supported by the University of Adelaideʼs Special Studies Programme. The author is grateful to a number of people in The Netherlands for easing the problems of an overseas researcher with their hospitality and advice. In Adelaide, my thanks must go to the indispensable Margaret Hosking, History Librarian at Adelaideʼs Barr-Smith Library, and to Dominic Stephanson for his valiant attempts to unscramble my prose and clear up my footnotes. Jasper van der Kerkhof and Jonathon Moore were of great assistance with statistics. The author is also indebted to the two anonymous reviewers for their comments and suggestions
Knight, G. Roger; Knight G. Roger; University of Adelaide
Журнал:
Journal of Southeast Asian Studies
Дата:
2006
Аннотация:
Late colonial sugar cane production in Java was characterised by the heavy use of (chemical) fertiliser in tandem with labour-intensive techniques and industrial work processes in the field. This article provides a useful corrective to an overemphasis on the extractive nature of the colonial economy of sugar and shows the truly industrial nature of plantation production. For students of colonial science and agriculture, the situation has additional ramifications, relating both to the role and ‘diffusion’ of scientific knowledge and to the historical dimensions of agricultural development in ‘the tropics’.
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