Global industry, local innovation the history of cane sugar production in Australia, 1820-1995 /

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Main Author: Griggs, P. D. (Peter D.)
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Bern ; New York : Peter Lang, c2011.
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245 1 0 |a Global industry, local innovation  |h [electronic resource] :  |b the history of cane sugar production in Australia, 1820-1995 /  |c Peter D. Griggs. 
260 |a Bern ;  |a New York :  |b Peter Lang,  |c c2011. 
300 |a xxxvi, 928 p. :  |b ill., maps. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references. 
505 0 |a An introduction -- Sugar cane and the production of sugar -- pt. 1. 1788 to 1863 : beginnings -- Intermittent attempts at sugar production -- The rise of the Colonial Sugar Refining Company -- pt. 2. 1864 to 1914 : becoming established -- The spread of sugar cane cultivation -- The production unit : planters, central millers, and small farmers -- Science and the canegrowers -- The milling sector -- Competing for the sugar basin : refiners, merchants, and the Australian sugar market -- pt. 3. 1915 to 1995 : expansion, export-orientated, and regulated -- A regulated expansion -- Growing the crop : cultivation methods, implements, and plant nutrition -- Managing water -- Breeding and improving cane varieties -- Combatting pests -- Defeating cane diseases -- Harvesting and transport of cane -- Regulating and modernising the milling sector -- The refining, marketing, and pricing of sugar. 
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650 0 |a Sugar  |x Manufacture and refining  |z Australia  |x History  |y 20th century. 
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