The Sugar Cane Industry: An Historical Geography from Its Origins to 1914.

Abstract

List of illustrations Acknowledgments A note on statistics Introduction: the taste for sweetness 1. Sugar cane and the manufacture of sugar 2. The Eastern origins Part I. The Sugar Industry in the West: 3. The Mediterranean sugar industry: c. 700-1600 4. The Atlantic sugar industry: c. 1450-1680 5. The American sugar industry in the eighteenth century 6. The innovations of a long nineteenth century: 1790-1914 7. The geographical responses to the forces of change: 1790-1914 Part II. The Sugar Industry in the East: 8. Asia: c. 1750-1914 9. The Indian Ocean and Pacific colonies: 1800-1914 Conclusion Appendix List of references Index.