Horizons in Post-Colonial Studies / Pal Ahluwalia and Bill Ashcroft -- Ch. 1. Introduction -- Ch. 2. Sugar and the Shaping of Western Culture / James Walvin -- Ch. 3. A Fatal Sweetness: Sugar and Post-Colonial Cultures / Bill Ashcroft -- Ch. 4. Discourses of Discovery: Transculturation and Sugar Plantations in Africa / Pal Ahluwalia -- Ch. 5. The Language of Colonial Power: the Sugar Industry's 'Coolies' in Colonial Java / G. Roger Knight -- Ch. 6. Spectres of sugar / Kate Flint -- Ch. 7. The Other Leviathans: Corporate Investment and the Construction of a Sugar Colony / John D. Kelly -- Ch. 8. Alien Agriculturalists: Non-European Small Farmers in the Australian Sugar Industry, 1880-1920 / Peter Griggs -- Ch. 9. Science versus Nature: The Cane - Beet Sugar Rivalry / John Perkins and Roger Munting