G. Roger Knight

Born in rural Shropshire, G. Roger Knight has been living and teaching in Adelaide, Australia, since the late 1960s. He gained his PhD from London University’s School of Oriental and Asian Studies, where his mentors included John Bastin and C. D. owan. He is an internationally recognised authority on the sugar industry of colonial Indonesia, with many publications to his name. Among the latest is Commodities and Colonialism: The Story of Big Sugar in Indonesia, 1880-1940 (Brill 2013); Sugar, Steam and Steel: The Industrial Project in Colonial Java, 1830-1885 (University of Adelaide Press 2015); and Trade and Empire in Early Nineteenth-Century Southeast Asia: Gillain Maclaine and his Business Network (Boydell Press 2015).