From Coffee to Tea Cultivation in Ceylon, 1880-1900

An Economic and Social History
Erscheinungsjahr 2008
ISBN: 978-90-04-16361-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 29, 338 Seiten, Format (B × H): 167 mm x 245 mm, Gewicht: 726 g

Reihe: Brill's Indological Library

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wenzlhuemer, Roland

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Geschichte der VWL

Über Autor(innen)

Roland Wenzlhuemer, Dr. phil. (2002) in History, Salzburg University, is Lecturer and Researcher at the Centre for British Studies, Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin. He has worked on the socioeconomic history of British Ceylon and recently on the history of global telecommunication in the nineteenth century.