Format:
1 Online-Ressource
ISBN:
9789047432173
Series Statement:
Brill's Indological library v. 29
Content:
Preliminary Materials /R. Wenzlhuemer -- Chapter One. Introduction /R. Wenzlhuemer -- Chapter Two. Geography /R. Wenzlhuemer -- Chapter Three. History /R. Wenzlhuemer -- Chapter Four. Demography /R. Wenzlhuemer -- Chapter Five. Export Economy /R. Wenzlhuemer -- Chapter Six. Resources /R. Wenzlhuemer -- Chapter Seven. Subsistence /R. Wenzlhuemer -- Chapter Eight. Administration /R. Wenzlhuemer -- Chapter Nine. Education /R. Wenzlhuemer -- Chapter Ten. New Elites /R. Wenzlhuemer -- Chapter Eleven. Immigrants /R. Wenzlhuemer -- Chapter Twelve. Revivals /R. Wenzlhuemer -- Chapter Thirteen. Conclusion /R. Wenzlhuemer -- Bibliography /R. Wenzlhuemer -- Index /R. Wenzlhuemer.
Content:
In the early 1880s a disastrous plant disease diminished the yields of the hitherto flourishing coffee plantation of Ceylon. Coincidentally, world market conditions for coffee were becoming increasingly unfavourable. The combination of these factors brought a swift end to coffee cultivation in the British crown colony and pushed the island into a severe economic crisis. When Ceylon re-emerged from this crisis only a decade later, its economy had been thoroughly transformed and now rested on the large-scale cultivation of tea. This book uses the unprecedented intensity and swiftness of this process to highlight the socioeconomic interconnections and dependencies in tropical export economies in the late nineteenth century and it shows how dramatically Ceylonese society was affected by the economic transformation
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [319]-325) and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004163614 (hardback : alk. paper)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9004163611 (hardback : alk. paper)
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Wenzlhuemer, Roland, 1976 - From coffee to tea cultivation in Ceylon, 1880 - 1900 Leiden [u.a.] : Brill, 2008 ISBN 9789004163614
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
Keywords:
Sri Lanka
;
Kaffeeanbau
;
Kaffeehandel
;
Teeanbau
;
Teehandel
;
Geschichte 1880-1900
DOI:
10.1163/ej.9789004163614.i-338
Author information:
Wenzlhuemer, Roland 1976-
