Table of Contents

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.

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This book is a geography of the sugar cane industry from its origins to 1914.