How Long to Read Sugar, Steam and Steel

How Long Does it Take to Read Sugar, Steam and Steel?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 24 minutes to read Sugar, Steam and Steel by G. Roger Knight

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

This is a book about the industrialisation of the manufacture of sugar - by that date a key global commodity - on a 'remote' colonial frontier in the middle decades of the nineteenth century. Between the 1830s and the 1880s the Indonesian island of Java, then part of the Dutch colonial empire, drew away from all its erstwhile Asian counterparts to become the 'Oriental Cuba'.While the Caribbean island held the position (which it took over from Brazil c.1850) of the world's second largest supplier of cane sugar to international commodity markets, 'Dutch' Java emerged from almost now-where to take second place. The island had begun the nineteenth century as one of a number of centres - in fact, a rather minor one - of pre-industrial sugar production located in tropical and sub-tropical Asia from the Indian sub-continent through to the southernmost islands of Japan.It ended the century not only as by far the largest of Asia's producer-exporters of sugar but also - critically - as the sole example of the sustained and successful large-scale industrialisation of sugar manufacture anywhere in 'the East'. This book sets out to explain how and why this happened - and what its implications were for the long-term trajectory of the Java sugar industry in the international sugar economy.

How long is Sugar, Steam and Steel?

Sugar, Steam and Steel by G. Roger Knight is 257 pages long, and a total of 66,049 words.

This makes it 87% the length of the average book. It also has 81% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Sugar, Steam and Steel Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours to read Sugar, Steam and Steel aloud.

What Reading Level is Sugar, Steam and Steel?

Sugar, Steam and Steel is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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