Science at the end of empire

This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY) open access license. This book is open access under a CC BY license.This is the first account of Britain’s plans for industrial development in its Caribbean colonies – something that historians have usually said Britain never contemplated. It shows that Britain’s remedy to the poor economic conditions in the Caribbean gave a key role to laboratory research to re-invent sugarcane as the raw material for making fuels, pl