From Coffee to Tea Cultivation in Ceylon, 1880-1900: An Economic and Social HistoryBRILL, 28 févr. 2008 - 360 pages 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. |
Table des matières
Chapter One Introduction | 1 |
Chapter Two Geography | 11 |
Chapter Three History | 19 |
Chapter Four Demography | 33 |
Chapter Five Export Economy | 53 |
Chapter Six Resources | 103 |
Chapter Seven Subsistence | 135 |
Chapter Eight Administration | 165 |
Chapter Nine Education | 201 |
Chapter Ten New Elites | 221 |
Chapter Eleven Immigrants | 243 |
Chapter Twelve Revivals | 271 |
Chapter Thirteen Conclusion | 297 |
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Expressions et termes fréquents
acreage acres administration Anuradhapura arrack British Buddhist capital Central Province Ceylon Statistical Blue Ceylonese chena Christian cinchona coconut coffee coffee crisis coffee cultivation Colombo colonial government crop cultivation of tea Dry Zone Dutch economic Educational Policy established expansion Export Economy Gordon Government Agent Governor goyigamas growth headmen Hindu Ibid Immigrant Plantation Workers important Indian Immigrant Plantation indigenous irrigation island Jaffna Kalutara District Kandy kanganies karavas labour land Legislative Council Low-Country Matale District missionary monoculture mudaliyars Muslim native nineteenth century nineteenth-century Ceylon Nuwara Eliya Nuwara Eliya District Olcott Ordinance Paddy Tax peasant coffee peasantry Peradeniya plantation economy plantation industry plantation labourers planters planting community Portuguese production profits Province of Uva railway regions religious revival salagamas schools Silva Sinhalese so-called social South India Sri Lanka Statistical Blue Books Table Tamil tea cultivation tea industry tion Trincomalee University of Peradeniya Vanden Driesen Wesumperuma wet rice Wickremeratne