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Author:   Peter Griggs
Publisher:   Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Imprint:   Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Edition:   New edition
Weight:   1.650kg
ISBN:  

9783034304313

ISBN 10:   3034304315
Pages:   930
Publication Date:   11 May 2011
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Contents: Sugar Cane and The Production of Sugar - Intermittent Attempts at Sugar Production in Australia - The Rise of the Colonial Sugar Refining Company - Spread of Sugar Cane Cultivation - The Production Unit: Planters, Central Millers and Small Farmers - Science and the Canegrower - The Milling Sector - Competing for the Sugar Basin - Regulated Expansion - Growing a Crop - Managing Water - Breeding and Improving Cane Varieties - Combating Pests - Defeating Diseases - Harvesting and Transport of Cane - Regulating and Modernising the Milling Sector - The Refining, Marketing and Pricing of Sugar.

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Peter Griggs has written an institutional history of high calibre. [...] This book is an amazingly complex study of a major Australian agricultural industry in all its variations. Its technical apparatus is superb. The photographs, maps, graphs, and tables enable the reader to absorb and summarise the dense text. The book will be of interest to all historians of the world's sugar industry and to anyone interested in how governments can control and shape an industry, then deregulate and let it float alone. [...] Griggs has produced what will stand as a masterpiece in historical geography. I doubt that anyone else will make a similar attempt in the next forty years. (Clive Moore, World Sugar History Newsletter)

Author Information

Peter D. Griggs is a historical geographer with an interest in agriculture and environmental history. Since 2000, he has been senior lecturer in human geography at the Cairns Campus of James Cook University, Queensland, Australia. He has published extensively on the Australian cane sugar industry.

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