Colonial Sugar Production in the Spanish Philippines: Calamba and Negros Compared

• Main Author: Aguilar, Filomeno V, Jr
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2017
• Subjects: History; Social and Cultural Anthropology; South and Southeast Asian Languages and Societies
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/history-faculty-pubs/76; https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-southeast-asian-studies/article/colonial-sugar-production-in-the-spanish-philippines-calamba-and-negros-compared/9247E908CBE71C724902321EDB1BC6AB
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

This article presents two modes of export-oriented sugar hacienda production in the late-nineteenth-century Spanish Philippines. The Hacienda de Calamba epitomised a large-scale estate under a religious corporation; it was an enclave economy reliant on local capital and technology. In contrast, Negr...