Commodities and Colonialism -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Preface -- Introduction -- Java sugar and the age of mass production -- Chapter 1 -- A new epoch -- The Asian connection -- Chapter 2 -- A precocious appetite -- Fertilizer, horticulture and agro-industry in the field -- Chapter 3 -- Bureaucracy versus plantocracy -- The colonial state and 'Big Sugar' -- Chapter 4 -- No business like sugar business -- From profit to investment -- Chapter 5 -- Enmeshed in Lilliput -- Constraints on growth -- Chapter 6 -- No escape -- The HVA and the Djatiroto project -- Chapter 7 -- Making the best of it -- The twenties and the apogee of big sugar -- Chapter 8 -- Commercial nemesis -- Java, Japan and the Raj -- Conclusion and postscript -- The story of 'Big Sugar' in Indonesia -- Appendix 1 Various data, circa 1880-1940 -- Appendix 2 Main export destinations Java sugar, circa 1880-1940 -- Appendix 3 Production costs at the Modjo Agoeng sugar factory,Surabaya Residency, East Java, 1905-1940 -- Bibliography -- Index.