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From Coffee to Tea Cultivation in Ceylon, 1880-1900
Roland Wenzlhuemer
其他書名
An Economic and Social History
出版
BRILL
, 2008-02-28
主題
History / Asia / General
History / Middle East / General
Business & Economics / Economic History
ISBN
9047432177
9789047432173
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=nTewCQAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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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.