LIBROS DEL AUTOR: g roger knight

2 resultados para LIBROS DEL AUTOR: g roger knight

  • Trade and Empire in Early Nineteenth-Century Southeast Asia
    G Roger Knight
    This book explores European mercantile activity in Southeast Asia at a time when trade in this part of the world was being transformed and extended much more widely. Based on extensive original research including in newly discovered archives, the book reveals, through the study of one particular merchant and his extensive network, how trade in the region worked. It outlines the...
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    108,38 €

  • Sugar, Steam and Steel
    G. Roger Knight / GRoger Knight
    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 drew decisively away in matters of technology and sugar science from other Asian centres of production which had once equalled or, m...
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    37,86 €