Sugar Machines and the Fragile Infrastructure of Commodities in the Nineteenth Century
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3924472 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David Singerman (University of Strathclyde, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 63-84 |
| Publication date | 2018-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Osiris (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0369-7827 • E-ISSN: 1933-8287 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/699234 |
| OpenAlex | W2898126776 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 27 |
This essay uses sugar machinery to explore the fragile infrastructure that allowed global commodity traffic to emerge. In the nineteenth century, the cane sugar industry transformed the Caribbean, the Hawaiian Islands, and much of the rest of the tropical world. Observers then and now tied sugar’s revolutionary power to the invention and spread of advanced mechanical technologies. Yet the origins and lives of those machines themselves have remained obscure. The superficially effortless circulation of standardized material goods like sugar depended on carefully cultivated systems for managing people, paper, objects, and knowledge—and such things could not be standardized so easily
Biology · Business · Commerce · Commodity · Economics · Economy · Market economy · Sugar · Sugar cane · Sugar industry · Australian History and Society · Engineering · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · History
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The TEA Set
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Cuban Sugar Industry
Matters of Exchange
Inventing ingenios
Metrology
Making Things the Same
The sugar cane industry
Dictionary of Scottish Business Biography
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System of terror
Science, Nature and Control
The Limits of Chemical Control in the Caribbean Sugar Factory
Knowledge in Transit
Workshop of the British Empire
The Diaspora of British Engineering
From Craftsmanship to Draftsmanship
Easily Cracked
The sugar revolution
Relocating Modern Science
Government of Paper
The economy of qualities
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,14 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2019 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |